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Date: 20-Mar-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora: Wiegand (2026)


Title: Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora
Series Title: Corpus and Discourse
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/exploring-meaning-in-surveillance-discourses-through-corpora-9781350501515/

Author(s): Viola Wiegand

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350501515, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis,
sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how
surveillance is defined, discussed, and negotiated in public
discourses.
It analyses different meaning components of the cultural keyword of
surveillance – inherently linked to power relations – in ongoing
debates of public discourses.
The author looks at the representation of surveillance in different
discourse domains through three different studies – the prime academic
journal in surveillance studies (Surveillance & Society), The Times
newspaper, and the signage of public spaces. The first two studies
illustrate implementations of a novel method of 'co-occurrence
comparisons' in diachronic analyses of collocation. The final study
integrates cutting-edge research on the multimodal representation of
surveillance in public spaces.
Adopting the sociolinguistic framework of 'surveillant landscapes'
from mediated discourses analysis, this analysis reveals how
surveillant practices are signalled in public environments. To capture
the textual and material representation of surveillance in a
collection of photographs from public spaces in multiple cities across
Europe, North America, and Asia, the study presents a novel
methodology combining corpus and qualitative methods for the analysis
of multimodal data.
With its analysis of innovative corpora, Exploring Meaning in
Surveillance Discourses through Corpora contributes new insights into
meaning-making patterns of surveillance and makes a strong case for
the role of corpus methods in the emerging 'sociolinguistics of
surveillance'.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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