Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication - A Guide for Research

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistic methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres.

List of contents

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

About the author

Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.

Summary

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistic methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Brookes, Gavin Collins Brookes, Luke C. Collins
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2023
• EAN: 9780367568450
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56845-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Communication Studies, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, Computational Linguistics, Health systems & services, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Health systems and services, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Medical and health informatics, Computational and corpus linguistics, Medical bioinformatics