ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of research that has adopted corpus approaches to investigate language use in the media. It introduces the key terms and analytical tools adopted in corpus research such as frequency, keywords, collocations, concordances, and semantic/discourse prosody. The chapter illustrates the practical uses of corpus tools for studying language in the media which stands for multilingualism in public discourse and includes several articles on the topic of bi- and multilingualism published in the major British newspapers from 2000 to 2014. It discusses the contribution of corpus approaches to media linguistics and outlines the main methodological and disciplinary perspectives and presents some of the recent corpus studies. The chapter summarizes the key and critical topics in corpus approaches to language in the media and also discusses avenues for further corpus research in media linguistics. It investigates structural, functional, and rhetorical aspects of language use and presents some prominent examples of research concerned with discursive representations.
