
Language, Discourse and Anxiety
Cambridge University Press
Published on 22. June 2023
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-1-009-25008-5 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-25008-5 (9781009250085)
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Persons
Luke Collins is a Senior Research Associate with the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University, specialising in the study of health and digital communication using corpus linguistics.
Content
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Sketching anxiety; 3. The lived experience; 4. Creating a community; 5. Sex and gender; 6. Comparing cultures; 7. Time; 8. Conclusion.