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American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Oates, Joyce Carol, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Oates, Joyce Carol --- Criticism and interpretation --- Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, --- Oouts, Tzois Karol, --- Oatesová, Joyce Carol, --- Outs, Dzhoĭs Kėrol, --- Outs, D. K. --- אוטס, ג׳ויס קרול, --- Smith, Rosamond, --- Fernandes, --- Kelly, Lauren,

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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 methodological perspectives, and analytical themes include variation between newspapers, change over time, diet and exercise, gender and social class. The volume also investigates the language that readers use when responding to obesity representations in the context of online comments. The authors reveal the power of linguistic choices to shame and stigmatise people with obesity, presenting them as irresponsible and morally deviant. Yet the analysis also demonstrates the potential for alternative representations which place greater focus on the role that social and political forces play in this topical health issue.

Obesity --- Discrimination against overweight persons --- Overweight persons --- Public opinion --- Press coverage --- Social conditions --- Public opinion. --- Adiposity --- Corpulence --- Fatness --- Overweight --- Body weight --- Metabolism --- Nutrition disorders --- Corpulent persons --- Fat persons --- Large persons --- Obese persons --- Persons --- Anti-fat bias --- Fat bias --- Fat discrimination --- Fat oppression --- Obesity bias --- Obesity discrimination --- Oppression, Fat --- Overweight bias --- Physical-appearance-based bias --- Disorders --- Patients --- Obesity - Press coverage - Great Britain --- Overweight persons - Press coverage - Great Britain --- Obesity - Public opinion --- Overweight persons - Public opinion --- Public opinion - Great Britain --- Overweight persons - Great Britain - Social conditions - 21st century --- Discrimination against overweight persons - Great Britain

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"This Element explores approaches to locating and examining social identity in corpora with and without the aid of demographic metadata. This is a key concern in corpus-aided studies of language and identity and this Element sets out to explore the main challenges and affordances associated with each approach and to discern what they can (and cannot) show. It describes two case studies, which each compare two approaches to social identity variables - sex and age - in a corpus of 14 million words of patient comments about NHS cancer services in England. The first approach utilises demographic tags to group comments according to patients' sex/age, while the second involves categorising cases where patients disclose their sex/age in their comments. This Element compares the findings from both approaches, which are critically discussed in terms of their implications for corpus-aided studies of language and identity"--

Cancer --- Cancéreux --- Corpora (Linguistics). --- Corpus (Linguistique). --- Feedback (Psychology). --- Feedback. --- Group identity. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Rétroaction (Psychologie). --- Sociolinguistics --- Sociolinguistics. --- Sociolinguistique --- Patients --- Language --- Langage --- Great Britain. --- England.

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American literature --- Literature and history --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- History and criticism.