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paper  discourse  construct  antagonism  between  us (Britain)  and  them  (the  EU)  and  depict  the  EU  as  a  threat  to  the  British  economy, political/legal sovereignty, and immigration control?

2）How is immigration depicted as an approaching threat and  What are the key lexico-grammatical  items  which  are  applied  to  depict  the  external  threat  of immigration?

3)   Why are the EU and immigration constructed as a threat in Brexit newspaper discourse?

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Chapter 2 Literature Review

2.1 Previous CDA Research

2.1.1 CDA in General

Critical Discourse Analysis（CDA）is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced,  and  resisted  by  text  and  talk  in  social  and  political  contexts  (van  Dijk, 2001, p.352). In CDA research, language is thought to be the tool of creating society, and  critical  discourse  analysts  commonly  recognize  that  there  exists  a  process  of lexico-grammatical selection when people are conveying messages via language. The selection, being subconscious or with purpose, is subject to the dominance of certain rules, and it features, at a certain level, systematicity (Fowler, Hodge, Kress, & Trew, 1979, p.188). In light of this, the social analysis came to be the main and critical part of discourse analysis while the language analysis  became a means of conducting the social analysis.

2.1.2 CDA, Political Discourse, and Newspapers

As a combination of contemporary linguistics and social science, CDA research of political discourse has developed to be one of the most dynamic research fields. It covers a wide range of themes, including education, diplomacy, economics, healthcare, environment, and immigration, and the forms of the texts range from speech, debate, interviews, editorials to press conference and newspapers.

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2.2 Corpus Linguistics and CDA

2.2.1 Synergy of Corpus Linguistics and CDA

The linguistic system was inherently probabilistic (Halliday, 1991, p.31). That is to  say,  the  probabilistic  information  in  language  constitutes  an  important  part  of  the nature of language. Corpus linguists have been focused on analyzing and processing language  data  from  different  perspectives  to  get  the  probabilistic  information  of meaning  in  the  texts.  CL  converges  with  CDA  on  the  importance  of  meaning  while they differ greatly in terms of research methods. CL features quantitative data while qualitative analysis is often thought to be lying at the heart of CDA. CL, however, can still  make  a  good  match  of  CDA  since  the  latter  has  been  put  under  much  criticism本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。