Spicksley Dr Kathryn, Franklin Dr Emma
Institute for Community Research and Development, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK.
Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK.
Appl Corpus Linguistics. 2023 Dec;3(3):100059. doi: 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100059. Epub 2023 Jun 12.
This article provides a comparative analysis of how frontline workers were constructed by the UK media prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Both the News on the Web Corpus and the Coronavirus Corpus, as monitor corpora of web-based new articles, were utilised to identify changes in both the frequency and use of the word front*line from 2010 to 2021. Findings show that, following the outbreak of COVID-19, constructions of frontline work were more frequently associated with medical professions and became more figurative in nature. Our findings provide a counterpoint to claims that the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increased awareness of the critical nature of many types of 'low-skilled' work not previously recognised as essential. The study also extends previous research which has traced changes in language and its deployment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
本文对英国媒体在英国新冠疫情之前及期间如何构建一线工作者进行了比较分析。作为基于网络的新闻文章监测语料库，网络新闻语料库和新冠病毒语料库都被用于识别2010年至2021年期间“front*line”一词的频率和用法变化。研究结果表明，新冠疫情爆发后，一线工作的构建更频繁地与医疗职业相关联，并且在性质上变得更具比喻性。我们的研究结果与一种说法形成了对比，即新冠疫情导致人们更加意识到许多类型的“低技能”工作的关键性质，而这些工作以前并未被视为必不可少的。该研究还扩展了先前的研究，这些研究追踪了新冠疫情期间语言及其运用的变化。
