Abstract This paper adapts O’Halloran’s (2010) electronic supplement analysis (ESA) to investigate debates about UK poverty in online newspaper articles and reader responses to those articles. While O’Halloran’s method was originally conceived to facilitate close reading, this paper modifies ESA for corpus-based discourse analysis by scaling it up to include multiple texts. I analyse (key-)keywords and concordances to compare seven articles from the Mail Online (2010–2015) with their 2354 reader responses generated using the newspapers’ Below the Line (BTL) comments feature. The analysis provides a snapshot of the discourses BTL commenters draw upon when writing about UK poverty. Unemployment, benefits receipt, and single parenthood were repeatedly referred to in the newspaper articles and their comments, but BTL commenters also drew on personal narratives and (fictional) anecdotes to index notions of flawed consumerism, scroungers, and the deserving and undeserving poor.

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多文本电子补充分析

摘要 本文采用 O'Halloran (2010) 的电子补充分析 (ESA) 来调查在线报纸文章中有关英国贫困的辩论以及读者对这些文章的反应。虽然 O'Halloran 的方法最初是为了促进仔细阅读而设计的，但本文通过将 ESA 扩大到包含多个文本来修改 ESA 以进行基于语料库的话语分析。我分析了（关键）关键字和索引，以将 Mail Online（2010-2015）中的七篇文章与他们使用报纸的下方 (BTL) 评论功能生成的 2354 篇读者回复进行比较。该分析提供了 BTL 评论者在撰写有关英国贫困时所引用的话语的快照。报纸文章和评论中反复提到失业、领取福利和单亲家庭，