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Paperback Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press Book

ISBN: 1108818978

ISBN13: 9781108818971

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...

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