Representing Minorities in Times of Conflict: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Letters to the Editor (Corpus and Discourse)

This comparative study of the linguistic representation of minorities across different historical and socio-political contexts addresses a unique and under-researched area in linguistics, focusing on letters to the editor (LTEs) as a genre of news discourse. The book provides insights into how public opinion and ideological stances are reflected in LTEs, offering a valuable perspective for interdisciplinary applications in history, media studies and linguistics. Focussing on two distinct conflicts across a century, the Armenian genocide and the Russian-Ukrainian war, and on their representation in the British press, the book shows how corpus methods and discourse analysis can assist socio-historical research towards a deeper understanding of the events as seen through the eyes of the public.The author begins by explaining the genre of LTEs and how they have changed over the course of a century with dramatic technological innovations and a shift in news production and consumption.She co