1st Edition

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication A Guide for Research

By Gavin Brookes, Luke C. Collins Copyright 2024
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres. Offering a critical review of the field, discussion of extended case studies, and practical exercises based on spoken, written, and digital language data, this book: introduces the... Read more

Chapter 1: Introducing health communication and corpus linguistics; Chapter 2: Designing and building a corpus; Chapter 3: Analysing a corpus; Chapter 4: Spoken health communication; Chapter 5: Written health communication; Chapter 6: Digital health communication; Chapter 7: Conclusion

Biography

Gavin Brookes is a Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK.

Luke Curtis Collins is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK.

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research is a highly informative and accessible introduction to health communication and corpus linguistics. The book is both practically and theoretically focused, covering a refreshingly wide range of health communication genres, including spoken, written, and digital health discourse. The book teems with fascinating insights into health language. I will be recommending it to all my students.” Kevin Harvey, University of Nottingham (UK) 

 

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research provides essential reading for new researchers, allowing them to sample studies applying corpus methods to a wide range of discourse domains. Yet with its in-depth and critical coverage of both corpus linguistics and health care communication, it is also sure to be useful for more seasoned researchers in these areas too.” Shelley StaplesUniversity of Arizona (USA)