Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University), Paul Baker (Lancaster University)

Broschiertes Buch

Obesity in the News

Language and Representation in the Press

Beschreibung

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity? The first book-length linguistic analysis of the representation of obesity in the press, this work presents innovative methods and key theories for exploring how language shapes public attitudes.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 203mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781108818971
• ISBN-10: 1108818978
• Artikelnr.: 60584035