Investigating Adolescent Health Communication
eBook - PDF

Investigating Adolescent Health Communication

A Corpus Linguistics Approach

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Investigating Adolescent Health Communication

A Corpus Linguistics Approach

About this book

A comprehensive corpus analysis of adolescent health communication is long overdue – and this book provides it. We know comparatively little about the language adolescents use to articulate their health concerns, and discourse analysis of their choices can shed light on their attitudes towards and beliefs about health and illness. This book interrogates a two million word corpus of messages posted by adolescents to an online health forum. It adopts a mixed method corpus approach to health communication, combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Analysis in this way gives voice to an age group whose subjective experiences of illness have often been marginalized or simply overlooked in favour of the concerns of older populations.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Study Adolescent Health Communication?
  7. Chapter 2 Adolescent Health Communication: Internet Health Provision and the Language of Email
  8. Chapter 3 Putting Adolescent Health in Context
  9. Chapter 4 Methods and Data: Introducing the Corpus Approach to Health Communication
  10. Chapter 5 Surveying the Adolescent Health Email Corpus: Frequency and Keyword Information
  11. Chapter 6 Communicating Delicacy: Reproductive Health Concerns
  12. Chapter 7 Questions about Sexual Transmitted Infections: HIV and AIDS
  13. Chapter 8 Communication of Psychological Distress: Suicide and Self-harm
  14. Chapter 9 Adolescent Accounts of Depression
  15. Chapter 10 Conclusions
  16. References
  17. Author Index
  18. Subject Index