Investigating Adolescent Health Communication

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

Investigating Adolescent Health Communication does indeed push back boundaries: in applied linguistic research practice, in methodology, in its rich interdisciplinarity and in its potential for impact on a key and hitherto relatively neglected area of social life. It is model of applied linguistics in action and it brings to the arena a use of corpus linguistics which is distinctive, richly nuanced, and exemplary. [From the 'Preface'] -- Professor Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham, UK This is a fascinating and unique book which clearly and critically reflects on methods used to examine the discourse within 2 million word corpus of health-related emails. It has much to offer, both to corpus linguists in terms of best practice in combining qualitative and quantitative methods and to health practitioners who want to improve communication with adolescents. -- Paul Baker, Professor of English Language, Lancaster University, UK

• 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