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- Analyses a corpus of over 16,000 British newspaper articles about obesity, totaling 9.7 million words
- Explores the sociological effects of media conceptualisations of weight and obesity
- Reveals how discriminatory tropes and stereotypes are embedded within and driven by language
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Book Title: (Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press
Book Subtitle: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma
Authors: Tara Coltman-Patel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44854-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44853-9Published: 05 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44856-0Due: 18 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44854-6Published: 04 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 214
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Sociology of the Body, Journalism, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, general, Sociolinguistics