Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press
Author:   Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) ,  Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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Pages:   292
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press


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Author:   Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) ,  Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781108836395


ISBN 10:   1108836399
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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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. Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has written twenty books on various aspects of language, discourse and corpus linguistics. He is commissioning editor of the journal Corpora, an associate editor of the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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