CORPUS OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES NEWSPAPERS

The data was collected from five major American newspapers: USA Today, New York Post, New York Daily News, The New York Times, and Washington Post, known for their broad circulation and readership in the United States. Up to three articles concerning immigration will be analyzed from each newspaper, based on the categories defined by Bach and Harnish (1979): ‘Constatives’, ‘Directives’, ‘Commissives’, and ‘Acknowledgements,’ which serve as the foundation for examining the types of illocutionary acts in this research. The corpus attached will be used to analyze and understand elements of migration narratives that have emerged in the public discourse to shape a clear viewpoint.

本数据集采集自美国五大主流报刊：《今日美国》（USA Today）、《纽约邮报》（New York Post）、《纽约每日新闻》（New York Daily News）、《纽约时报》（The New York Times）以及《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Post），上述报刊均以全美范围内广泛的发行量与读者群体闻名。本研究将依据巴赫与哈尼斯（Bach & Harnish, 1979）提出的话语行为分类标准，从每份报刊中选取至多三篇涉及移民议题的文章开展分析，该分类体系包含“断言类（Constatives）”、“指令类（Directives）”、“承诺类（Commissives）”与“答谢类（Acknowledgements）”，以此作为本研究考察言外行为（illocutionary acts）类型的理论基础。所附语料库将用于分析并解读公共话语中涌现的移民叙事要素，以构建清晰的研究视角。