chapter one  introduction: discourse, war legitimacy and the iraq war
  1.1  background
  1.2  the notion of discourse
  1.3  discourse and war
  1.4  iraq war discourse studies: an overview
  1.5  research objectives
  1.6  data
  1.7  chapter overview
chapter two  theoretical framework and methodology
  2.1  critical discourse analysis
  2.2  analyzing war legitimation discourse in an interdisciplinary framework
  2.3  corpus-based cda
  2.4  summary
chapter three  organization and reorganization of clusters and constellations in iraq war discourse
  3.1  overview
  3.2  content-based analysis
  3.3  data description
  3.4  discussion
  3.5  summary
chapter four  axiologicai investigation: appraisal analysis
  4.1  the theoretical foundation of the appraisal framework
  4.2  corpus approach to appraisal analysis
  4.3  inscribed attitude analysis
  4.4  engagement analysis
  4.5  summary
chapter five  epistemic investigation: transitivity analysis
  5.1  epistemic relations and ideational meaning
  5.2  corpus approach to transitivity analysis
  5.3  data description and explanation
  5.4  summary
chapter six  a complementary perspective: analyzing text as it unfolds
  6.1  complementarity of quantitative and qualitative approaches
  6.2  samples for analysis
  6.3  appraisal analysis
  6.4  transitivity analysis
  6.5  summary
chapter seven  conclusion
  7.1  summary of the findings
  7.2  research significance and implications
  7.3  limitations and suggestions for further study
references
appendix a  corpus of presidential speeches
appendix b  keyword lists
appendix c  claws 4 tag set for verbs
acknowledgements