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  • Masculinities and Language

    by Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes ...
    Today, the topic of gender identity is being discussed more widely than ever before. With the rise of online misogyny and in the wake of #metoo, language around masculinity and toxic masculinity merits closer examination. Accessibly written by two leading linguists, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the debates around language and masculinity, asking how language is used to perform ... Read more

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  • Obesity in the News

    Language and Representation in the Press

    by Gavin Brookes, Paul Baker ...
    Obesity 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 studied from a range of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication

    A Guide for Research

    by Gavin Brookes, Luke C. Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
    Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication 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:introduces the fields of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Portraits from Paris

    School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes ...
    Written between 2019 and 2024, Portraits from Paris is a novelized memoir of a boarding-school childhood in 1970s England, interspersed with journalistic sketches of cities as diverse as Montevideo, Kolkata, and Moscow that draw from the travel-studded years between school and the author’s move to France. Along the way, Gavin Cologne-Brookes reflects on historic events ranging from Brexit, the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

    A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English

    by Tony McEnery, Isobelle Clarke, Gavin Brookes ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    How do language learners interact with those who already speak the language they are learning? It is more than just a question of learning vocabulary and grammars – learners also need to learn how to put together conversations in their new language and to vary the way they interact across different contexts. This book shows, using millions of words of data, how this happens. It is the first large ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

    by Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins, Tony McEnery ...
    Communication is central to the experience of illness and the provision of healthcare. This book showcases the insights that can be gained into health communication by means of corpus linguistics – the computer-aided linguistic analysis of large datasets of naturally occurring language use known as 'corpora'. The book takes readers through the stages that they must go through to carry out corpus ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health

    Edited by Gavin Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health-based perspectives on issues such as migration and gender identity, as these relate to masculinities. In exploring these themes, this book addresses ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Applications of Corpus Linguistics

    Established and Emergent Contexts

    Edited by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Robbie Love ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Linguistics
    Bridging the gap between linguistic theory and practice, this timely book demonstrates the transformative potential of corpus linguistics research and methods across a wide range of contexts. With contributions from a diverse range of authors, this book provides contemporary reflections on both established applications in language education, as well as emergent contexts in which corpus methods are ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Historical Medical Discourse

    Corpus Linguistic Perspectives

    Edited by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery, Emma Putland ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past, whose preservation allows for a clearer understanding of changes to medical knowledge and practices ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Dark Eyes on America

    The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes ...
    "A sound and engaging book that creates a balanced overview of Oates's career while tackling the question of her role in the wider community." -- Modern Fiction StudiesJoyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. In Dark Eyes on America, Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of this remarkable master of her craft, finding evidence in her novels of an ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • American Lonesome

    The Work of Bruce Springsteen

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes ...
    American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rereading William Styron

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes ...
    The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer's works, world, and character. Bringing an innovative approach to literary criticism, Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal anecdote, scholarly research, travel writing, and primary material to provide fresh perspectives on Styron's achievements.For Cologne ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD