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From Frequency to Sequence: How Quantitative Methods Can Inform Qualitative Analysis of Digital Media Discourse
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Abstract This paper aims at showing how quantitative corpus linguistic analysis can inform qualitative analysis of digital media discourse with respect to the mediality of language in use. Using the example of protest discourse in Twitter, in the field of anti-Islamic ‘Pegida’ demonstrations, a three-step me... mehr
This paper aims at showing how quantitative corpus linguistic analysis can inform qualitative analysis of digital media discourse with respect to the mediality of language in use. Using the example of protest discourse in Twitter, in the field of anti-Islamic ‘Pegida’ demonstrations, a three-step method of collecting, reducing and interpreting salient data is proposed. Each step is aligned with opera-tive medial features of the microblog: hashtags, retweets and @-interactions. The exemplary analysis reveals the importance of discussions of attendance numbers in protest discourse and the asymmetry between administrative (i.e. the police) and non-administrative discourse agents. Furthermore, it exemplifies how frequency analysis and sequence analysis can be combined for research in media linguistics.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Twitter; Diskursanalyse; Linguistik; Interaktion; Sprachgebrauch; Digitale Medien; Soziale Medien; politische Kommunikation; Protest; politische Meinung; Meinungsbildung
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
sequence analysis; mixed methods; corpus linguistics; media linguistics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 57-73
Zeitschriftentitel
10plus1 : Living Linguistics (2015) 1
Heftthema
Media Linguistics
ISSN
2366-0562
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)