ABSTRACT
The building of a corpus enables not just the quantitative work normally associated with corpus linguistics but also the qualitative study of individual texts from the corpus, a type of analysis which is typical of stylistics. In this chapter, we conduct two case studies on selected extracts from our corpus. The first case study focuses on a text sample from the popular autobiography section of our corpus, specifically from the autobiography of the English medium Doris Stokes. This text was selected because its peculiar characteristics raise a number of interesting (if idiosyncratic) issues which we became acutely aware of in the process of annotation. The second case study draws from the newspaper section of the corpus, and concentrates on the set of news reports published in our chosen set of newspapers about a particular news story. As we explained in 2.1.2, in selecting our newspaper data we focused on a number of prominent stories at the time, which were covered in at least three different newspapers. We are therefore in a position to compare different treatments of the same story with respect to SW&TP. The particular story we have chosen relates to the publication of a so-called ‘politically correct’ version of the New Testament and Psalms, and was selected because it raises issues to do with the notion of faithfulness to an original in reporting and with ideological bias in SW&TP.
