Investigating Adolescent Health Communication

A Corpus Linguistics Approach

AvKevin Harvey,Michaela Mahlberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-04-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Corpus and Discourse
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474233408

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

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[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.

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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