Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press

by Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker

Book Overview

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"