Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Viola Wiegand is Lecturer in Education (TESOL) at the University of Stirling, UK.In an increasingly inhuman world with big data and artificial intelligence penetrating every aspect of our lives, this book on surveillance discourses across time and space is a timely and original contribution which expertly and innovatively synthesizes methods and frameworks from corpus linguistics, mediated discourse analysis and linguistic landscape research.
Phoenix Lam, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
We live in a surveillance society. Negotiating this from a personal, institutional and ethical perspective relies on a clear understanding of what surveillance actually means. Viola Wiegand’s groundbreaking sociolinguistic study of the topic is both calm and authoritative, offering a peerless insight into this most important of issues.
Dan McIntyre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is defined, discussed, and negotiated in public discourses.
It analyses different meaning components of the cultural keyword of surveillance – inherently linked to power relations – in ongoing debates of public discourses.
The author looks at the representation of surveillance in different discourse domains through three different studies – the prime academic journal in surveillance studies (Surveillance & Society), The Times newspaper, and the signage of public spaces. The first two studies illustrate implementations of a novel method of ‘co-occurrence comparisons’ in diachronic analyses of collocation. The final study integrates cutting-edge research on the multimodal representation of surveillance in public spaces.
Adopting the sociolinguistic framework of ‘surveillant landscapes’ from mediated discourses analysis, this analysis reveals how surveillant practices are signalled in public environments. To capture the textual and material representation of surveillance in a collection of photographs from public spaces in multiple cities across Europe, North America, and Asia, the study presents a novel methodology combining corpus and qualitative methods for the analysis of multimodal data.
With its analysis of innovative corpora, Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora contributes new insights into meaning-making patterns of surveillance and makes a strong case for the role of corpus methods in the emerging ‘sociolinguistics of surveillance’.
Introduction
1. Surveillance and Discourse
2. Capturing Surveillance Discourses through Specialised Corpora
3. Academic Discourses of Surveillance: The Surveillance & Society Journal
4. Surveillance News over Time: Diachronic Changes in The Times Digital Archive (1986–2008)
5. Multimodal Patterns of Surveillant Landscapes
6. Conclusions and Outlook
References
Appendices
Index
Language is ubiquitous. As never before, it is now commonly understood how crucial language is for human interaction, for negotiating and shaping our material and ideational reality. In the digital age, the speed, scale and diversity of forms of communication and language use have grown rapidly. The increasing amount of language data that influences attitudes, decision-making and relationships highlights how the methodology of corpus linguistics together with the explanatory power of discourse analysis are indispensable for deciphering the world around us.
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and discourse studies, the Corpus and Discourse series publishes innovative research where humanities and social sciences come together to understand the relationship between discourse and society in an increasingly digital world.
Series Editors: Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK) and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
Consulting Editor: Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK)
Editorial Board
Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK
Frantisek Cermák, Charles University, Prague
Susan Conrad, Portland State University, USA
Matteo Fuoli, University of Birmingham, UK
Maristella Gatto, University of Bari, Italy
Dominique Maingueneau, Université de Paris XII, France
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg, Germany
Alan Partington, University of Bologna, Italy
Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex, UK
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena, Italy
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK
Ruihua Zhang, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China
Feng Zhiwei, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China