Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora (Corpus and Discourse)

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is defined, discussed, and negotiated in public discourses.It analyses different meaning components of the cultural keyword of surveillance - inherently linked to power relations - in ongoing debates of public discourses. The author looks at the representation of surveillance in different discourse domains through three different studies - the prime academic journal in surveillance studies (Surveillance & Society), The Times newspaper, and the signage of public spaces.The first two studies illustrate implementations of a novel method of ‘co-occurrence comparisons’ in diachronic analyses of collocation.The final study integrates cutting-edge research on the multimodal representation of surveillance in public spaces.Adopting the sociolinguistic framework of ‘surveillant landscapes’ from mediated discourses analysis, this analysis reveals h