The Middle-class Card: A Corpus-based Study of the Characteristics of the Middle Class in US News

The ups and downs of the American middle class led several social scientists to rethink reflect on their conditions, yet characteristics how are represented in news have been hardly examined from a linguistic perspective. This study used synergy tools Corpus Linguistics Critical Discourse Analysis, guided by Norman Fairclough’s 3-D model (1989), investigate collocation profile ideology underpinning its representation US web discourse 2010 until 2022. relied specialized corpus that had 1,253,678 tokens, including (30,975 times) middle-class (23,587 times). findings showed was consistent constructing during past twelve years. Under neoliberal policies, idea classism is an intrinsic dividing system society, notion family economic unit seems be ubiquitous. Also, depicted as establishes stability political card politicians use agendas win majority votes. In spite significance class, they mostly passivated minimizing human agency downplaying roles doers actions. can part branch Applied focuses relationship between science economics language.