Backround Reading (not all of these will make it to References)
Ancarno, C. (2020) ‘Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies’, in A. De Fina and A. Georgakopoulou (eds) The Cambridge handbook of discourse studies. 1st edn. Cambridge University Press, pp. 165–185. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348195.009.
Bachmann, I. (2011) ‘Civil partnership – “gay marriage in all but name”: a corpus-driven analysis of discourses of same-sex relationships in the UK Parliament’, Corpora, 6(1), pp. 77–105. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2011.0005.
Baker, P. et al. (2008) ‘A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press’, Discourse & Society, 19(3), pp. 273–306. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926508088962.
Baker, P. (2013) Public discourses of gay men. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge advances in corpus linguistics, 8).
Freake, R., Gentil, G. and Sheyholislami, J. (2011) ‘A bilingual corpus-assisted discourse study of the construction of nationhood and belonging in Quebec’, Discourse & Society, 22(1), pp. 21–47. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926510382842.
Hardt-Mautner, G. (1995) ‘Only connect.’ Critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. 6. Lancaster: University of Lancaster Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)).
Matheson, D. (2023) ‘Discourse analysis after the computational turn: a mixed bag’, Communication Research and Practice, 9(1), pp. 3–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531
Partington, A. (2008) ‘The armchair and the machine: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies’, in C.T. Torsello, K. Ackerley, and E. Castello (eds) Corpora for university language teachers. Peter Lange (Linguistic insights, v. 74), pp. 189–213.
Partington, A. (2010) ‘Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS) on UK newspapers: an overview of the project’, Corpora, 5(2), pp. 83–108. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2010.0101.
Taylor, C. (2013) ‘Searching for similarity using corpus-assisted discourse studies’, Corpora, 8(1), pp. 81–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2013.0035.
Taylor, C. (2022) ‘The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis: water metaphors and migration’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 27(4), pp. 451–479. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.22004.tay.
1. Methodology - MD-CADS / CADS
2. Corpus Construction
Alexander, M. (2023) ‘Speech in the British Hansard’, in M. Korhonen, H. Kotze, and J. Tyrkkö (eds) Studies in Corpus Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 17–53. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.111.01ale.
Baker, P. (2023) Using corpora in discourse analysis. Second edition. Bloomsbury Academic (Bloomsbury discourse).
Browne, C. (2017) ‘Being a Hansard reporter: 10 things you thought you knew | Commons Hansard’, 24 July. Available at: https://commonshansard.blog.parliament.uk/2017/07/24/being-a-hansard-reporter-10-things-you-thought-you-knew/ (Accessed: 27 March 2026).
Bauer, M.W. and Aarts, B. (2000) ‘Corpus construction: a principle for qualitative data collection’, in M. Bauer and G. Gaskell, Qualitative researching with text, image and sound. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 20–37. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781849209731.n2.
Egbert, J., Biber, D. and Gray, B. (2022) Designing and evaluating language corpora: a practical framework for corpus representativeness. Cambridge University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316584880.
Ilie, C. (2015) ‘Parliamentary discourse’, in K. Tracy, T. Sandel, and C. Ilie (eds) The international encyclopedia of language and social interaction. 1st edn. Wiley, pp. 1–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi201.
Mollin, S. (2007) ‘The Hansard hazard: gauging the accuracy of British parliamentary transcripts’, Corpora, 2(2), pp. 187–210. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2007.2.2.187.
Odell, E. (2021) ‘Hansard speeches 1979-2021: Version 3.1.0’. Zenodo. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4843485.
Scott, M. (2010) WordSmith tools, Introduction to WordSmith Tools. Available at: https://www.lexically.net/downloads/version5/HTML/index (Accessed: 23 March 2026).
Tognini-Bonelli, E. (2001) Corpus linguistics at work. John Benjamins Publishing Company (Studies in corpus linguistics, volume 6). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.6.
3. Discourse Analysis
Flowerdew, L. (2023) ‘Corpus-based discourse analysis’, in J. P. Gee and M. Handford, The Routledge Handbook of discourse analysis. 2nd edn. Routledge, pp. 126–138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035244-11.
Gee, J.P. and Handford, M. (2023) ‘Introduction’, in J. P. Gee and M. Handford, The Routledge handbook of discourse analysis. 2nd edn. London: Routledge, pp. 1–7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035244-1.
Hunston, S. (2007) ‘Semantic prosody revisited’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 12(2), pp. 249–268. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.2.09hun.
Louw, B. (1993) ‘Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies’, in M. Baker, G. Francis, and E. Tognini-Bonelli (eds) Text and Technology. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 157–176. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/z.64.11lou.
Partington, A., Duguid, A. and Taylor, C. (2013) Patterns and meanings in discourse: theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS). John Benjamins Publishing Company (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, volume 55).
Sinclair, J.M. (1991) Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford university press (Describing English language).
Sinclair, J. and Carter, R. (2004) Trust the text: language, corpus and discourse. Routledge.
4. Methodology - Metaphor
Charteris-Black, J. (2004) Corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000612.
Charteris-Black, J. (2006) Politicians and rhetoric: the persuasive power of metaphor. Nachdr. Palgrave Macmillan.
Charteris-Black, J. (2009) ‘Metaphor and gender in British parliamentary debates’, in K. Ahrens (ed.) Politics, gender and conceptual metaphors. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 139–165. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245235_7.
Deignan, A. (2005) Metaphor and corpus linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Deignan, A. (2006) ‘The grammar of linguistic metaphors’, in A. Stefanowitsch and S.Th. Gries (eds) Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 106–122. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199895.106.
Dunagan, L. and Card, D. (2025) ‘Characterizing religious rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record’, in T. Arnold, M. Fantoli, and R. Ros (eds) Anthology of computers and the humanities. Association for Computers and the Humanities, pp. 686–706. Available at: https://doi.org/10.63744/PfmVXNYwYxq6.
Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. (2011) Metaphors we live by: with a new afterword. 6. print. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Musolff, Andreas (2017) ‘Metaphor and persuasion in politics’, in R. Wodak and B. Forchtner (eds) The Routledge handbook of language and politics. 1st edn. Routledge, pp. 641–654. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315183718.
Pinker, S. (2007) ‘The metaphor metaphor’, The stuff of thought: language as window into human nature. Lane, pp. 225–278.
Stefanowitsch, A. (2006) ‘Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy’, in A. Stefanowitsch and S.Th. Gries (eds) Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1–16. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199895.1.
Reimann, S. and Scheffler, T. (2024) ‘Metaphors in online religious communication: A detailed dataset and cross-genre metaphor detection’, in N. Calzolari et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Torino, Italy: ELRA and ICCL, pp. 11236–11246. Available at: https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.982.pdf.
Rodet, P. (2020) ‘Metaphor as the distorting mirror of Brexit: a corpus-based analysis of metaphors and manipulation in the Brexit debate’, ELAD-SILDA [Preprint], (5). Available at: https://doi.org/10.35562/elad-silda.865.
Steen, G. (2014) ‘The cognitive-linguistic revolution in metaphor studies’, in J. Littlemore and J.R. Taylor (eds) The Bloomsbury companion to cognitive linguistics. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Publishing (UK). Available at: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472593689.
Stefanowitsch, A. and Gries, S.Th. (eds) (2006) Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Mouton de Gruyter. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199895.
Woods, R., Fernández, A. and Coen, S. (2012) ‘The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change’, Public Understanding of Science, 21(3), pp. 323–339. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662510385061.
Reading list
Baker, P. (2011) ‘Times may change, but we will always have money: Diachronic variation in recent British English’, Journal of English Linguistics, 39(1), pp. 65–88. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424210368368.
Baker, P. (2025) ‘Corpus‐Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS)’, in C.A. Chapelle (ed.) The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. 1st edn. Wiley, pp. 1–6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20489.
Baker, P. and McEnery, T. (2015) ‘Introduction’, in P. Baker and T. McEnery (eds) Corpora and discourse studies. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1–19. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431738_1
Loewen, S. and Godfroid, A. (2019) ‘Advancing quantitative research methods’, in J. McKinley and H. Rose (eds) The Routledge handbook of research methods in applied linguistics. 1st edn. Routledge, pp. 98–107. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367824471-9.
Partington, A. (2014) The linguistics of political argument: the spin-doctor and the wolf-pack at the White House. Routledge (Routledge advances in corpus linguistics, 4).
Partington, A. (2004) ‘Corpora and discourse, a most congruous beast’, in A. Partington, J. Morley, and L. Haarman (eds) Corpora and discourse. Peter Lang (Linguistic insights, v. 9), pp. 11–20.
Partington, A. and Johnson, J.H. (2020) ‘Corpus analysis of political language’, in C.A. Chapelle (ed.) The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. 1st edn. Wiley, pp. 1–11. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0250.pub2.
Partington, A. and Università di Camerino (eds) (2004) Corpora and discourse. Lang (Linguistic insights, Vol. 9).
Semino, E., Heywood, J. and Short, M. (2004) ‘Methodological problems in the analysis of metaphors in a corpus of conversations about cancer’, Journal of Pragmatics, 36(7), pp. 1271–1294. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2003.10.013.