Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108818978
ISBN13:9781108818971
Release Date:February 2022
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:292 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 8.0" x 9.0"
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