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This research explored the potential of a corpus-driven approach to discourse analysis, specifically the analysis of online media discourses surrounding the issue of climate change. It examined a pilot corpus of texts drawn from the main online news sources accessed by the Australian public over a period of one month: September 2013.
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Rose, E.R. (2017). A Month of Climate Change in Australia: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Media Discourse. In: Mickan, P., Lopez, E. (eds) Text-Based Research and Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59849-3_3
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