Investigating Adolescent Health Communication

Kevin Harvey is a Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK.

[T]he first book-length study in which corpus linguistics is used in interrogating adolescent health discourse ... [It] has much to offer to linguistics and health practitioners who want to improve communication with young people.

• Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction: Why Study Adolescent Health Communication? 2. Adolescent Health Communication: Internet Health Provision and the Language of Email 3. Putting Adolescent Health in Context 4. Methods and Data: Introducing the Corpus Approach to Health Communication 5. Identifying Key Concerns: Surveying the AHEC 6. Communicating Delicacy: Reproductive Health Concerns 7. Questions about Sexual Transmitted Infections: HIV and AIDS8. Communicating Distress: Suicide and Self-harm 9. Communicating Distress: Depression 10. Concluding Discussion References Index