Abstract:

Corpus technology can remedy the drawbacks of intuition-based deduction and provide a bottom-up approach to discourse analysis.The textual information gained through corpus search such as frequency,keywords,collocation,clusters and patterns,helps researchers to explore discourses.This paper discusses the combination of corpus techniques and CDA methods.The Sun is chosen as an example to see how discourses around bin Laden are filtered for the sake of a wide range of reasons including national interest,the purpose of the owner of the press,audience targeting and other historical,political and social factors.