Investigating Adolescent Health Communication A Corpus Linguistics Approach
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
SKY Journal of Linguistics
<i>Investigating Adolescent Health Communication </i>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,
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.
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 AIDS
8. Communicating Distress: Suicide and Self-harm
9. Communicating Distress: Depression
10. Concluding Discussion
References
Index
Language is ubiquitous. As never before, it is now commonly understood how crucial language is for human interaction, for negotiating and shaping our material and ideational reality. In the digital age, the speed, scale and diversity of forms of communication and language use have grown rapidly. The increasing amount of language data that influences attitudes, decision-making and relationships highlights how the methodology of corpus linguistics together with the explanatory power of discourse analysis are indispensable for deciphering the world around us.
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and discourse studies, the Corpus and Discourse series publishes innovative research where humanities and social sciences come together to understand the relationship between discourse and society in an increasingly digital world.
Series Editors: Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK) and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
Consulting Editor: Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK)
Editorial Board
Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK
Frantisek Cermák, Charles University, Prague
Susan Conrad, Portland State University, USA
Matteo Fuoli, University of Birmingham, UK
Maristella Gatto, University of Bari, Italy
Dominique Maingueneau, Université de Paris XII, France
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg, Germany
Alan Partington, University of Bologna, Italy
Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex, UK
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena, Italy
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK
Ruihua Zhang, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China
Feng Zhiwei, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China