Language, Discourse and Anxiety

by Luke Collins and Paul Baker

Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety. It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety, as well as how aspects of identity like age, sex and cultural background can impact on understandings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009250086
• ISBN13: 9781009250085
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"