Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
Cover of the book Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years by Dr Lesley Jeffries, Dr Brian Walker, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Author: Dr Lesley Jeffries, Dr Brian Walker ISBN: 9781350046252
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: November 16, 2017
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Language: English
Author: Dr Lesley Jeffries, Dr Brian Walker
ISBN: 9781350046252
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: November 16, 2017
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English

Building on Raymond Williams' iconic "Keywords" released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the 'New Labour' project. Focussing on print news media, this book establishes a set of socio-political keywords for the 'Blair Years', and demonstrates how their evolving meanings are indicative of the ideological landscape in Britain at that time, and the extent to which the cultural hegemony of the New Labour project influenced the language of the commentariat.

Combining corpus linguistic approaches with critical stylistics the authors conduct an analysis of two newspaper corpora using computational tools. Looking closely at textually-constructed meanings within the data, their investigation of the keywords has a qualitative focus, and sets out a clear methodology for combining corpus approaches with systematic co-textual analysis.

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Building on Raymond Williams' iconic "Keywords" released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the 'New Labour' project. Focussing on print news media, this book establishes a set of socio-political keywords for the 'Blair Years', and demonstrates how their evolving meanings are indicative of the ideological landscape in Britain at that time, and the extent to which the cultural hegemony of the New Labour project influenced the language of the commentariat.

Combining corpus linguistic approaches with critical stylistics the authors conduct an analysis of two newspaper corpora using computational tools. Looking closely at textually-constructed meanings within the data, their investigation of the keywords has a qualitative focus, and sets out a clear methodology for combining corpus approaches with systematic co-textual analysis.

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