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Schiffrin, D (2001) Discourse Markers: language, Meaning, and Context In Schiffrin 2001 (Eds). The handbook of Discourse Analysis. p. 54-75
Depicts one section in which she specifically addresses markers across contexts, languages, and over time.

 

 
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 Political Discourse Analysis

Voicing on the news: An analytic technique for studying media bias
Wortham, S. & Locher, M. (1996). Voicing on the news: An analytic technique for studying media bias. Text, 16, 557-585.
Speakers often evaluate others, implicitly, while apparently speaking in a neutral way about them. This article develops an account of the textual devices speakers use to communicate such implicit messages. The account draws on Bakhtin's (1981 [1935]) concepts of 'voice' and; ventriloquation'. It systematizes these concepts, by proposing five specific textual devices that speakers use to convey implicit evaluations. This account is then applied to samples of discourse from network news political coverage, specifically coverage of the 1992 US presidential election. The five devices occur robustly in this discourse. Three networks' coverage of one campaign event is analyzed in detail to illustrate how newscasters orchestrate their implicit evaluations through skillful use of the five devices.
 

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Also referred to as text chaining or discourse historical method which aims at tracing the intertextual links and history of phrases and arguments. The method starts with original documents and is usually enhanced by enthnographic research.
Some examples are:
Wodak 1995
van Leeuwen & Wodak 1999
 

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