Keywords in the press: the new Labour years

In: Corpus and discourse

Abstract

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Background to Keywords in the Press -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Cultural and statistical keywords -- 1.3 Analytical and theoretical background -- 1.4 The keywords of the Blair years project -- 1.5 Summary and structure of the book -- Chapter 2: Methods and Data -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Corpus construction -- 2.3 Finding the sociopolitical keywords of the Blair years -- 2.4 Contextual investigation of the keywords -- 2.5 Chapter summary and concluding remarks -- Chapter 3: Sultans of Spin -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Spinning statistics -- 3.3 Spin in context -- 3.4 The semantics of spin in the Blair years -- 3.5 Spin: Summary and concluding remarks -- Chapter 4: Choice is the Word of the Hour -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Previous research on choice -- 4.3 Choice and its meanings -- 4.4 Choice as a mass noun in the Blair and Major Corpora -- 4.5 Choice in public services -- 4.6 Choice and scare quotes -- 4.7 Summary and conclusions - choice as a political absolute -- Chapter 5: The Immense Possibilities of the Word Reform -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The basics of reform -- 5.3 Reform in context -- 5.4 Reform - summary and conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Impact of Living in a More Global World -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The meaning and political importance of global -- 6.3 Statistics of global in the Blair and Major Corpora -- 6.4 Semantic analysis of the co-text of global -- 6.5 Semantic categorization results -- 6.6 Discussion of semantic categories -- 6.7 Global - summary and conclusions -- Chapter 7: A Breeding Ground for Terror -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Terror and its meanings -- 7.3 Statistics of terror -- 7.4 Terror as a premodifier -- 7.5 Terror as a postmodifier -- 7.6 Modified and unmodified terror -- 7.7 Terror - summary and conclusions