Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press Brookes Gavin
Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press Brookes Gavin Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. It combines techniques from corpus…
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Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press Brookes Gavin
Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. 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. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press.
The volume also investigates the language that readers use when responding to obesity representations in the context of online comments. These articles are studied from a range of methodological perspectives, and analytical themes include variation between newspapers, change over time, diet and exercise, gender and social class. The authors reveal the power of linguistic choices to shame and stigmatise people with obesity, presenting them as irresponsible and morally deviant.
Yet the analysis also demonstrates the potential for