Faith alone can overturn the universe: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Horus Heresy as Warhammer 40,000’s Discursive Justification
This paper explores the Horus Heresy (HH) series – comprising 64 novels and over 10 million words – as a foundational myth within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, using tools from corpus linguistics and the historical approach of Critical Discourse Analysis, particularly following Ruth Wodak’s framework.While the Warhammer 40,000 setting (W40K) presents a vast and diverse …