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14. The permeable context of institutional and newspaper discourse: A corpus-based functional case study of the European sovereign debt crisis


 
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1. Title Title of document 14. The permeable context of institutional and newspaper discourse: A corpus-based functional case study of the European sovereign debt crisis - Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Sabrina Fusari; University of Bologna;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) institutional register; news register; corpora; EU debt crisis; register-idiosyncrasy
 
6. Description Abstract Like Thompson, Sabrina Fusari investigates register hybridity by combining SFL with Corpus Linguistics. After a brief theoretical overview, her case study of the European sovereign debt crisis as represented in newspaper and institutional discourse is presented. Analysis revolves around two specially prepared corpora comprising: 1) articles from The Financial Times, and 2) official documents released by the Council of Europe, all on the debt crisis, published between 9 and 15 December 2011. The keywords investigated (‘eurozone’, ‘debt’, ‘banks’, ‘growth’) prove to be used differently in the two corpora, both in phraseological and in grammatical terms, and this impacts on how the same crisis and, by extension, the role of European institutions, are represented in the two registers. Findings show that, despite the mutual influence between institutional and newspaper discourse, different views on the debt crisis, and potential ways out of it, are upheld by the City of London (which The Financial Times may be considered to represent) and by EU institutions. Finally, the synergy between SFL and Corpus Linguistics proves a valuable instrument for analysing register hybridity (and ‘idiosyncrasy’, Miller and Johnson 2009), potentially increasing its effectiveness as more sophisticated SFL-aware corpus annotation tools become available.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 16-Mar-2016
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/24302
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.24302
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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