| Investigating Adolescent Health Communication: A Corpus Linguistics Approach Contributor(s): Harvey, Kevin (Author), Mahlberg, Michaela (Editor), Teubert, Wolfgang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474233406 ISBN-13: 9781474233408 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Natural Language Processing - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Medical | Pediatrics |
| Dewey: 618.928 |
| Series: Corpus and Discourse |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.81 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A comprehensive corpus analysis of adolescent health communication is long overdue - and this book provides it. We know comparatively little about the language adolescents use to articulate their health concerns, and discourse analysis of their choices can shed light on their attitudes towards and beliefs about health and illness. This book interrogates a two million word corpus of messages posted by adolescents to an online health forum. It adopts a mixed method corpus approach to health communication, combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Analysis in this way gives voice to an age group whose subjective experiences of illness have often been marginalized or simply overlooked in favour of the concerns of older populations. |
