语料库可弥补单凭直觉推断的缺陷,为人们提供自下而上的话语研究方法。利用词频、主题词、搭配、词丛、型式等语料库提供的文本语境信息,便于分析话语的呈现。本文阐述语料库与批判话语分析结合的研究方法,并以英国《太阳报》对bin Laden(本.拉登)话语的建构为例,探讨报纸如何将国家利益、经营目的、读者定位等政治和社会因素渗透到话语中。

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.