Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DINEQ (Tracking discoursal shift in news media representation of economic inequality: developing and applying corpus linguistic and critical discourse analysis methods)

Economists have documented that, since the 1970s, the UK has become a more unequal society, the gap between the richer and the poorer growing systematically from then onwards. Today, there is more relative poverty in the UK than 40+ years ago, and wealth is distributed in a...