Obesity in the News - Language and Representation in the Press

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity?

Table des matières

1. Introduction; 2. The way in - shared keywords in the press; 3. Studying difference - comparing sections of the press; 4. Change over time; 5. Shaming and reclaiming; 6. Healthy body - diet and exercise; 7. General discourses of obesity; 8. 'A disease of the poor'? - obesity and social class; 9. Going 'below the line' - reader responses; 10. Conclusion.

A propos de l'auteur

Gavin Brookes is a Senior Research Associate in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse studies, health communication and multimodality. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has written twenty books on various aspects of language, discourse and corpus linguistics. He is commissioning editor of the journal Corpora, an associate editor of the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Résumé

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity? The first book-length linguistic analysis of the representation of obesity in the press, this work presents innovative methods and key theories for exploring how language shapes public attitudes.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Gavin (Lancaster University) Baker Brookes
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108818971
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81897-1
• Pages: 292
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires; Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Chronic diseases and conditions, Obesity: Treatment & Therapy