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  • Obesity in the News

    Language and Representation in the Press

    by Gavin Brookes, Paul Baker ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication

    A Guide for Research

    by Gavin Brookes, Luke C. Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
    Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres. Offering a critical review of the field, discussion of extended case studies, and practical exercises based on spoken, written, and digital language data, this book:introduces the fields of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

    by Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins, Tony McEnery ...
    Communication is central to the experience of illness and the provision of healthcare. This book showcases the insights that can be gained into health communication by means of corpus linguistics – the computer-aided linguistic analysis of large datasets of naturally occurring language use known as 'corpora'. The book takes readers through the stages that they must go through to carry out corpus ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

    A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English

    by Tony McEnery, Isobelle Clarke, Gavin Brookes ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    How do language learners interact with those who already speak the language they are learning? It is more than just a question of learning vocabulary and grammars – learners also need to learn how to put together conversations in their new language and to vary the way they interact across different contexts. This book shows, using millions of words of data, how this happens. It is the first large ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health

    by Dr Daniel Hunt, Dr Gavin Brookes ...
    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    **Shortlisted for the 2021 BAAL Book Prize for an outstanding book in the field of Applied Linguistics**Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication, Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health provides insights into the linguistic practices of members of three online support communities as they describe their experiences of living with and managing different mental health ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Analysing Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback

    A Comparison of Approaches

    by Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes ...
    Series series Elements in Corpus Linguistics
    This Element explores approaches to locating and examining social identity in corpora with and without the aid of demographic metadata. This is a key concern in corpus-aided studies of language and identity, and this Element sets out to explore the main challenges and affordances associated with either approach and to discern what either approach can (and cannot) show. It describes two case ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Masculinities and Language

    by Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes ...
    Today, the topic of gender identity is being discussed more widely than ever before. With the rise of online misogyny and in the wake of #metoo, language around masculinity and toxic masculinity merits closer examination. Accessibly written by two leading linguists, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the debates around language and masculinity, asking how language is used to perform ... Read more

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  • The Language of Patient Feedback

    A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication

    by Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Craig Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
    The Language of Patient Feedback provides a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to healthcare. Through the comprehensive and detailed interrogation of 29 million words of online patient feedback on the NHS in England, as well as 11 million words of responses to the feedback from NHS providers, this book:Uses a combination of computer-assisted and human analysis (Corpus-Assisted ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Portraits from Paris

    School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes ...
    Written between 2019 and 2024, Portraits from Paris is a novelized memoir of a boarding-school childhood in 1970s England, interspersed with journalistic sketches of cities as diverse as Montevideo, Kolkata, and Moscow that draw from the travel-studded years between school and the author’s move to France. Along the way, Gavin Cologne-Brookes reflects on historic events ranging from Brexit, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Writing and America

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Neil Sammells, David Timms ...
    Series series Crosscurrents
    Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Historical Medical Discourse

    Corpus Linguistic Perspectives

    Edited by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery, Emma Putland ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past, whose preservation allows for a clearer understanding of changes to medical knowledge and practices ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Beyond Boundaries

    Rereading John Steinbeck

    by Lorelei Cederstrom, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, James C. Kelley, Warren G. French, Paul Hadella, Charlotte Hadella, Hiroshi Kaname, Michael J. Meyer, Kiyoshi Nakayama, John Ditsky, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Kyoko Ariki, Brian Railsback, Robert DeMott, Christine Rucklin, P. Balaswamy, John Seelye, Rodney P. Rice, Christina Sheehan Gold, Hiromasa Takamura, Malithat Promathatavedi, Carol L. Hansen, Stephen K. George ...
    The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influenceAs a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, illuminated the lives of ordinary people, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: The Great ... Read more

    $21.59 USD