Obesity in the News
language and representation in the press
$110.34
- Paperback
292 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2021
Summary
Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines techniques from corpus linguistics with critical discourse studies to analyse a large corpus of newspaper articles (36 million words) representing ten years of obesity coverage. These articles are studied from a range of methodological perspectives, and analytical themes include variation between newspapers, change …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108818971 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1108818978 |
| Author: | Gavin Brookes, Paul Baker |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 292 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 16mm |
You Can Find This Book In
About The Author
Gavin Brookes
Gavin Brookes is a Senior Research Associate in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse studies, health communication and multimodality. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has written twenty books on various aspects of language, discourse and corpus linguistics. He is commissioning editor of the journal Corpora, an associate editor of the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.