Hello

As to your aooroach of data collection, your efforts are great as to collect data for a 20 year period. If there is bias, it is, to me, detected when when the researcher aims at describing a general two-phased topic for instance, but handles it as to one phase only without justification! As to your appraoch of CDA, it depends upon the type of issue you want to study and the type of questions you want to answer. Any approach is appropriate when it meets the questions that it is set to answer.

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Given that you have a corpus in the electronic version, I would definitely consider using some stylometric indexes and thematic concentration, or carrying out keyword and collocation analyses, etc. They could provide you with a solid springboard for further interpretations.

Dear Mahdi I. Kareem al-Utbi and Michal Místecký

Thanks a lot for your valuable answers. Both are taken into account.

Dear Michal Místecký

I collected the electronic versions of all data and digitalized all of them (more than 300.000 pages of newspapers). As you also advised, I use the thematic concentration and keywords analysis. Also, since the data collected came from 9 newspapers divided into three groups, I also obtained numerical data for which I can make intergroup and intragroup comparisons. So, I can support the CDA with massive quantitative data sets. The biggest issue for me now is to make this huge data more understandable. Due to the fact that my expertise is management and organization studies, and this kind of works is relatively new in our field, I have this kind of problems.

Thanks a lot

Hi

You don’t make it clear whether you are working on a paper or a Master/Ph.D. dissertation. This huge amount of data requires time and tremendous effort on your part. Remember while your data should represent well the issue your are studying, they should not necessarily be, quantitatively speaking, huge. And if you’re pressed by time, you might be unable to do justice to the data you’ve collected. However, if time is not an issue, the study of a news item over a span of 20 years can provide great insights into many discourse aspects such as discourse strategies and the way they change over time among many others. Best Wishes

Hello dear Jinan F. B. Al-Hajaj ,

I am so sorry. I've just noticed your question and hence can answer know. This is for my PhD dissertation. You're absolutely right that such a huge amount of data may not necessary for a paper. but in my dissertation, I have a big picture with many underlying dimensions and I'm trying to answer all. So far it seems very good. Thanks a lot for your valuable comment. Regards.

Hello again Michal Místecký

I hope you can remember me. I also use thematic concentration for my study and in doing this, I created a model to follow based on some important manipulation studies. So, I couldn't find a good paper to compare with my model. If you know any, could you advise me a paper which is good in the practice of thematic concentration?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards

Dear@Umut Çil

It’s alright. Judging by the amount of your data, I expected it to be a Ph. D. project. You seem to be doing well on your own. Nonetheless, I couldn’t help but read your comments about thematic concentration. You’ve probably come across ( The appeal to political sentiment: An analysis of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s speech themes and discourse strategies in the 2016 US presidential election) by Dilin Liu and Lei Lei published in Discourse, Context and Media in 2018. If not, I think it will prove of use to your study. Also, there is another article published in Society and Discourse in 2017 entitled (Is Trump always rambling like a fourth-grade student? An analysis of stylistic features of Donald Trump’s political discourse during the 2016 election) by Yaqin Wang. Best Wishes!

Dear Jinan F. B. Al-Hajaj ,

Thank you very much for your advice.

I already read the second one but not the first one. I will read it also.

Best regards