英文摘要 |
The paper explores aspects and applications of corpus-assisted discourse studies(CADS). 1100 reports that include “the China Dream” from the four major Taiwanese newspapers were collected as a corpus to demonstrate my analysis. A corpus linguistic method enables the researcher to map dominant issues in news reports, probe semantic prosody and analyze “aboutness” of text via examinations of keywords in context. A subsequent analysis with different aspects of discourse approaches including recontextualization, naming, referencing, comparing allow further exploration of the texts. Based on the process of CADS, this paper proposes a framework of textual analysis that looks into a micro-level of lexis and could reveal a macro-level of discursive structure. |