Obesity in the News by Gavin Brookes PAPERBACK 9781108818971

Cambridge University Press

Obesity in the News\nby Gavin Brookes\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Gavin Brookes\nTitle: Obesity in the News\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociolinguistics\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781108818971\nISBN-10: 1108818978\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nObesity 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 studie.