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The term representation/s is widely used in discourse analysis (see van Dijk, 2002 for a discussion on its use), and especially in relation to studies of political and/or media discourses. The adoption of this particular term, in preference to other possibilities presumably deemed less functionally appropriate, for example, report, model, description, interpretation or reconstruction, is not without some interesting repercussions.
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Partington, A. (2015). Corpus-Assisted Comparative Case Studies of Representations of the Arab World. In: Baker, P., McEnery, T. (eds) Corpora and Discourse Studies. Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431738_11
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