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Naming and describing offenders and victims

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This chapter provides a brief overview of what noun phrases in sentences consist of and how they can be analysed. This enables identification of naming choices for offenders and victims and thus their labelling processes, applying Critical Stylistics either on its own or accompanied by a corpus linguistic approach. Some basic corpus linguistic tools are introduced from the freely available software package AntConc. The model of grammar used in this book is called SPOC (subject, predicate, object, complement).

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    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/21/ched-evans-wins-appeal-against-conviction, accessed on 24 April 2016.

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    https://ota.ox.ac.uk/, accessed on 26 March 2016.

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    http://www.theguardian.com/international, accessed on 26 March 2016.

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    http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/, accessed on 26 March 2016.

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    http://www.lexically.net/downloads/version6/HTML/index.html?keywords_info.htm, accessed on 3 April 2016.

  6. 6.

    http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/llwizard.html, accessed on 27 March 2016.

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    http://www.lexically.net/downloads/version6/HTML/index.html?keywords_info.htm, accessed on 27 March 2016.

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    http://www.lexically.net/downloads/version6/HTML/index.html?keyness_definition.htm, accessed on 27 March 2016.

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    http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/index.html, accessed on 27 March 2016.

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    http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/, accessed on 27 March 2016.

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    For more detailed information on Corpus Linguistics, I refer to Adolphs (2006), Baker (2006), Kennedy (1998) or McEnery et al. (2006).

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Tabbert, U. (2016). Naming and describing offenders and victims. In: Language and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45351-8_3

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