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Analysing Security Discourse

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This chapter describes how in the course of our enquiry we uncovered a procedure that can be performed to provide the sophisticated critical analysis of substantial corpora of security discourse. The chapter begins by outlining the history of mixed method research in which this procedure has been frequently suggested, but seldom as yet applied on a large-scale basis. We then set out how we evolved a procedure which commences with analysis of systematically selected core texts, the data from which is then articulated upon the wider corpus. A sequence for effective work is suggested, including a crucial stage of ‘tailored’ corpus enquiry which, when applied flexibly to pursue leads furnished by manual analysis, can generate findings that powerfully synthesize corpus and critical discourse results.

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    Malcolm N. MacDonald

  2. School of Education, University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Duncan Hunter

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MacDonald, M.N., Hunter, D. (2019). Analysing Security Discourse. In: The Discourse of Security. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97193-3_5

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