From ‘politically correct councillors’ to ‘Blairite nonsense’: discourses of ‘political correctness’ in three British newspapers  

Oleh:

Johnson, Sally ; Culpeper, Jonathan ; Suhr, Stephanie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 1 (Jan. 2003), page 29 - 47.
Topik: corpus linguistics; newspaper discourse; ‘political correctness’
Fulltext: 29DS141.pdf (147.64KB)

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This article explores discourses of ‘political correctness’ (‘PC’) in a corpus of articles gathered from three broadsheet newspapers in the UK between 1994 and 1999. Using the software package WordSmith Tools (Scott, 1999) two types of analysis were undertaken: first, a numerical count of socalled ‘PC’-related terms (‘political correctness’, ‘politically correct’, etc.) in each of the three newspapers; and second, a compilation of the ‘keywords’ which occurred most frequently within the corpus in relation to the term ‘political correctness’. Our study reveals an overall decline in the use of ‘PC’- related terms throughout the period in question, but suggests some interesting shifts in the way in which discourses of ‘political correctness’ have been drawn upon as a means of framing debates over the British Labour Party.

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