ABSTRACT
This chapter is divided into two halves. In the fi rst, I shall examine how both politicians and newsworkers reported and evaluated the behaviour of rival politicians and news organizations regarding the confl ict in Iraq in its initial stages, as evidenced in various CorDis subcorpora. The second contains a number of refl ections on the nature of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and its relation to recent theoretical developments in corpus linguistics.
