Child Welfare in Victorian Newspapers: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Atkinson, Paul; Gregory, Ian N.
- Source
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Autumn2017, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p159-186. 28p. 2 Charts, 1 Graph.
- Subject
- *CHILD welfare
*ENGLISH newspapers
*CHILD death
*INFANT mortality
*CORPORA
*HISTORY
- Language
- ISSN
- 0022-1953
The article presents a corpus-based discourse analysis of child welfare and infant mortality in Victorian newspapers published from 1801 to 1900. It attempts to assess the potential of corpus linguistics to analyze real-life language data and uncover objective patterns in a text through a quantitative analysis of language.