Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication

<p><em>Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication</em> provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres. Offering a critical review of the field discussion of extended case studies and practical exercises based on spoken written and digital language data this book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>introduces the fields of health communication and corpus linguistics and critically reviews cutting-edge studies in the burgeoning area of corpus-based health communication;</li> <p> </p> <li>describes the processes involved in planning a corpus linguistics study of health communication including designing and building a corpus selecting tools and implementing techniques of analysis;</li> <p> </p> <li>demonstrates how corpus linguistics methods can – and have – been applied to the study of spoken written and digital health communication offering critical reflections and suggesting areas for future development.</li> </ul><p><em>Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication</em> is essential reading for those working at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication. Both those with a little or a lot of experience in either field will find value in its pages.</p>