Investigating Adolescent Health Communication: A Corpus Linguistics Approach

by Kevin Harvey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474233406
• ISBN13: 9781474233408
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"