Gavin Brookes, Paul Baker

Obesity in the News

Language and Representation in the Press

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Produktbeschreibung

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 203mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108836395
• ISBN-10: 1108836399
• Artikelnr.: 60579216

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The way in - shared keywords in the press
3. Studying difference - comparing sections of the press
4. Change over time
5. Shaming and reclaiming
6. Healthy body - diet and exercise
7. General discourses of obesity
8. 'A disease of the poor'? - obesity and social class
9. Going 'below the line' - reader responses
10. Conclusion.