Valuing circus: A corpus-assisted critical discourse investigation of review texts

This dissertation explores how circus has been represented as valuable in British review texts and, following the understanding that reviews are a crucial component of circus discourse (Purovaara, 2009), addresses the implications of this public representation for circus workers and audiences. Drawing on the principle that evaluation as realised in texts is an expression of underlying value systems (Thompson and Alba-Juez, 2014:10; Bednarek and Caple, 2017:78), a position is outlined for the ways in which three publications value circus through their reviews. This has been determined through Corpus Linguistic analysis utilising keyword tools (Scott and Tribble, 2006) and application of APPRAISAL theory (Martin and White, 2005). The publicly available access to these value systems is then considered via a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, identifying which values are legitimised and which effaced in these reviews. The publications in the study are The Stage (a general arts industry newspaper available in newsagents), King Pole (a fan-club magazine available through membership of the Circus Friends Association), and The Catch (the most recent print magazine produced by and for circus practitioners in the UK, which ceased publication in 1998). Reviews are all taken from 1996, and results show a restricted range of values expressed in both King Pole and The Stage in comparison to The Catch. Furthermore, these are presented in a more authoritative and legitimising way than in the practitioner magazine. The effect is that the publications available to the widest section of the public obscure pertinent ways that circus can provide value to audience members, impacting consumer choice and therefore the financial security of people who make their living from circus work. Recommendations are made to encourage representation of multiple perspectives in UK circus discourse through reviews that realise more diverse value systems in their tex

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This 1967 volume honoring Professor George S. Lane also features eight of his articles on aspects of Tocharian that made him a supreme authority in his field. The essays that follow by Cowgill, Eliason, Haas, Hahn, Hamp, Lehmann, Reitz, Robinson, Watkins, and Widding range from studies of Old Norse and Old English to Hittite

Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane

This 1967 volume honoring Professor George S. Lane also features eight of his articles on aspects of Tocharian that made him a supreme authority in his field. The essays that follow by Cowgill, Eliason, Haas, Hahn, Hamp, Lehmann, Reitz, Robinson, Watkins, and Widding range from studies of Old Norse and Old English to Hittite

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Primary Sources and Asian Pasts

This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars from diverse fields in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from the premodern world. It represents the culmination of the ERC's Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University

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