This methodological workshop intends to illustrate how to approach the analysis of News Media texts with the toolbox of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). This framework integrates Discourse and Critical Discourse Analysis with corpus linguistics methods, going beyond a mere statistical, quantitative analysis of texts. Corpus linguistics techniques are applied to query large news media corpora made available online and also specifically designed topical data sets. The exploratory findings thus obtained become the point of departure for a researcher-driven analysis of the linguistic and discursive make-up of texts in their connection with society.
Time and date: Friday, April 29, 2022, 8:00-9:30
Place: room 2.116, Dobra 55, Warsaw
Prof. Maria Cristina Paganoni
University of Milan, Italy
Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Milan.
Her research approach falls within the methodological frameworks of Discourse Analysis and social semiotics and is enriched with critical insights from social sciences. Her interests address the linguistic and discursive configurations of a wide range of societal issues, with a critical focus on how they are represented and circulated by the media and the social web. She has investigated sociotechnical controversies and their ethical impact, as these emerge and are debated in public discourse, from the smart city and the Internet of Things to Artificial Intelligence and big data.
She is the author of the volumes City Branding and New Media: Linguistic Perspectives, Discursive Strategies and Multimodality (2015), Framing Big Data: A Linguistic and Discursive Approach (2019), as well as several book chapters and journal articles in international peer-reviewed publications