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Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press

By Gavin Brookes, Paul Baker
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By Gavin Brookes, Paul Baker
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Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines techniques from corpus linguistics with critical discourse studies to analyse a large corpus of newspaper articles (36 million words) representing ten years of obesity coverage. These articles are studied from a range of methodological perspectives, and analytical themes include variation between newspapers, chang...

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