Crime and Corpus : The linguistic representation of crime in the press.

Crime and Corpus -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Epigraph page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- 1.1 Crime as a social phenomenon -- 1.2 Language and crime theories -- 1.3 The structure of this book -- Crime theories and the media -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Crime theories -- 2.2.1 Offender theories -- 2.2.1.1 Offenders and labelling theory -- 2.2.2 Victims and victimology -- 2.3 Recent tendencies and restorative justice -- 2.4 Risk and fear of crime -- 2.5 The fascination of crime -- 2.6 Moral panics -- 2.7 Criteria of newsworthiness -- Critical language studies and critical stylistics -- 3.1 Concepts and definitions -- 3.1.1 Text -- 3.1.2 Ideology -- 3.1.3 Discourse -- 3.1.4 Power -- 3.2 Critical language studies -- 3.2.1 Critical linguistics -- 3.2.2 Critical discourse analysis and its major approaches -- 3.2.2.1 The marxist approach -- 3.2.2.2 The socio-cognitive approach -- 3.2.2.3 The discourse-historical approach -- 3.2.2.4 The socio-semantic approach -- 3.2.3 The cultural, the multimodal, and the cognitive approach to CDA -- 3.2.4 Critical views on CDA -- 3.3 Critical Stylistics -- 3.3.1 The methods of critical stylistics -- 3.3.1.1 Naming and describing -- 3.3.1.2 Representing actions/events/states - Transitivity analysis and verb voice -- 3.3.1.3 Equating and contrasting -- 3.3.1.4 Implying and assuming -- 3.3.1.5 Hypothesising - Modality -- 3.3.1.6 Presenting other's speech, thoughts, and writing -- Corpus linguistics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Different approaches to corpus linguistics -- 4.3 Different types of corpora -- 4.4 Reference corpora -- 4.5 The software package WordSmith tools -- 4.5.1 Wordlist/frequency list -- 4.5.2 Dispersion plots -- 4.5.3 Concordances, collocates, colligates, connotations, and semantic prosody.

4.5.4 Keywords -- 4.6 Advantages and dangers of corpus linguistics -- Conducting the analysis -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Stylistics -- 5.3 Data collection -- 5.3.1 Newspapers -- 5.3.2 Selection criteria -- 5.3.3 Constructing comparable corpora -- 5.4 Differences in the languages -- 5.4.1 Type/token ratio (TTR) -- 5.5 Reference corpora -- 5.6 Analysing the data -- 5.6.1 Wordlist -- 5.6.2 Collocation and concordances -- 5.6.3 Constructing a specialised keyword list -- 5.6.4 Extracting the most significant sentences -- 5.7 Critical Stylistics -- 5.8 Determining statistical significance by using log-likelihood ratio -- 5.8.1 Log-likelihood ratio -- 5.8.1 Calculating a confidence interval -- Linguistic construction in the British press -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Offenders -- 6.2.1 Naming and equating -- 6.2.2 Contrasting -- 6.2.3 Processes and states -- 6.2.4 Opinions -- 6.2.5 Summary -- 6.3 Victims -- 6.3.1 Naming and equating -- 6.3.2 Processes and states -- 6.3.3 Opinions -- 6.3.4 Differences between victims and offenders -- 6.4 Summary -- Linguistic construction in the German press -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Offenders -- 7.2.1 Naming and equating -- 7.2.2 Processes and states -- 7.2.3 Opinions -- 7.2.4 Assuming and implying -- 7.2.5 Contrasting -- 7.2.6 Comparing the ENC and the GNC -- 7.2.7 Summary -- 7.3 Victims -- 7.3.1 Naming and equating -- 7.3.2 Processes and states -- 7.3.3 Opinions -- 7.3.4 Time and space -- 7.3.5 Assuming and implying -- 7.3.6 Comparing victims and offenders -- 7.3.7 Comparing the GNC and ENC -- 7.3.8 Summary -- 7.4 Crimes -- 7.4.1 Naming -- 7.4.2 Processes and states -- 7.4.3 Opinions -- 7.4.4 Time and space -- 7.4.5 Summary -- Final considerations -- 8.1 Linguistic constructions -- 8.2 Innovations -- 8.3 Critical thoughts and outlook -- Appendix -- Table A1 -- Table A2 -- Index.

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