ENGL 2300: Interpreting Discourse: Home
Finding Reliable Sources
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Finding Corpora
- Access World News This link opens in a new window
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
- 60 Minutes: 1997-2014 This link opens in a new window
For more information on how to find particular transcripts, video, and audio, reach out to me! You can also visit the guide below and click on the Transcripts & Video tab in the navigation pane for tips on best use of these resources.
Some other strategies for building a corpus include going through a specific Twitter tag, going through YouTube comments, etc.
You can search the Libraries' catalog for ebooks to look for literature to analyze.
Many of our primary source databases also allow for content analysis through full-text, machine-readable scans of archival material. Below are just a few examples, but if you want other suggestions or tips on how to use them, please let me know!
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationer’s Company Archives This link opens in a new window
- Mass Observation Online This link opens in a new window
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Discourse Analysis
Several tools exist for analyzing text for trends and themes. Below are just a few examples.
Note: these will not do a discourse analysis for you! These merely provide ways to look for trends in a text to aide you in your own analysis.
- Text Analysis TutorialsThe Louisiana Digital Library offers great tutorials on how to use their content (or any text you might have) to conduct text analysis using Databasic tools and Voyant.
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