Abstract
Book Review: Islentyeva, A. (2020) Corpus-based analysis of ideological bias. Migration in the British press. London: Routledge.
Highlights
Readers learn that Islentyeva will analyse 500 articles from 2013-2015, and 500 from 2016-2018. These articles are from both right-wing outlets (The Sun, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail) and left-wing publications (The Guardian and The Observer, The Mirror), providing a balanced ideological view of discursive representations across the British press
The author provides a detailed introduction to distinctive collexeme analysis (Gries & Stefanowitsch, 2004), a corpus linguistic method that has largely been absent in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Throughout her analysis, Islentyeva reveals the usefulness of this method for analysing RASIM representations; it will undoubtedly become a popular tool in future CADS work
Summary
Her first goal is to trace the linguistic differences and similarities in the right-wing and left-wing coverage of RASIM prior to the 2016 British referendum on EU membership (Chapter 3). The second aim is to examine the transformation of migration discourses after the referendum, by analysing representations of European migrants in newspaper articles from 2016 to 2018 (Chapter 4).
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