This paper is concerned with conceptual metaphors and event-construal in newspaper language. Event-construal is defined as 'the way in which a particular event in the ¿realworld. is construed via textualisation'. The paper ...

Emotion Talk Across Corpora offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others¿ emotions. It is the first book-length treatment of `emotion talk¿ in four registers of British English - conversation, ...

The subject of this paper is the hearer’s 1 application to discourse of frames – mental knowledge structures that capture the typical features of a situation – in order to secure coherence. Having established a working ...

While there is much linguistic research on news discourse, most studies (outside CDA) have focussed on the so-called `quality¿ newspapers. In contrast, this study systematically compares the language of ten British `popular¿ ...

In this chapter I take a corpus linguistic perspective on the language of evaluation and emotion working with a 1.5 million word corpus of American TV dialogue (from the TV series Gilmore Girls). I am interested in occurrences ...