Language, Discourse and Anxiety Paperback / softback
by Luke (Lancaster University) Collins, Paul (Lancaster University) Baker
Part of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety?
This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety.
It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety, as well as how aspects of identity like age, sex and cultural background can impact on understandings of anxiety and how it ought to be managed.
It tracks the changing identities of posters, from their first posts to their last, and incorporates a range of corpus-based techniques to examine the language data, enabling consideration of interaction between participants and features associated with online forms of communication like emoji.
It ultimately provides a step towards a better understanding of different responses to anxiety and aims to promote further engagement with this topic in the field of applied linguistics.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781009250122
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009250122
