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G Brookes

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ID37128
NOMBREG Brookes
NOMBRESG
APELLIDOBrookes
FIRMABROOKES G
AFILIACIONESLancaster University
ORCID0000-0003-0726-2559
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS36
TOTAL DE CITAS132
TOTAL COMO AUTOR36
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7
  • Multimodal irony in public responses to digitally mediated NHS Covid-19 messaging

    Open Access•Yuze Sha, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2026•Referencias: 9

    This study investigates how multimodal irony is discursively constructed in the expression of stance and evaluation in comments responding to the UK National Health Service’s (NHS) COVID-19 policy posts on Twitter/X. Using a discursive pragmatic approach, we identified and analysed comments containing instances of multimodal irony targeting COVID-19 policies, institutional authorities, and policy supporters. Our analysis shows that multimodal iro…

  • Corpora and Health Communication

    Open Access•James Balfour, G Brookes•CHAPTER•Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics•2025

    This chapter provides an introduction to corpus approaches to health communication. In it, we explore some of the earlier and more recent scholarship in this area, and, in doing so, pick out some key principles and themes which have emerged in the field. We begin by exploring corpus research into language in more obvious healthcare contexts, like GP consultations, before considering less obvious forms of health(care) discourse, like news and onli…

  • Grammar and Corpora

    Open Access•Richard Xiao, G Brookes et al.•CHAPTER•Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics•2025

    The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. The corpus approach has helped redefine what a grammar is, leading grammars away from abstract, idealized, representations of language toward an approach rooted in attested language use in the form of corpora. The confrontation with corpus data has changed what is viewed as grammatical and what a grammar should account …

  • We No Longer Recognized Her as a Human Being

    Emma Putland, Chris Chikodzore-Paterson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and…•2025•Referencias: 6

    Motivated by the gender inequalities observed in relation both to dementia and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), this article takes a critical discourse analysis approach to explore how gender and dementia intersect in 52 AI-generated character descriptions of men and women with dementia. Using “woman/man” as entry points through which to explore discursive constructions masculinities and femininities in the data, we find gendered disti…

  • Weight Stigma

    Open Access•Monika Bednarek, Carly Bray et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Linguistics•2024

    This article includes examples of confronting language in relation to people living with obesity.

  • Visualizing dementia and stigma

    Open Access•Emma Putland, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Visual Communication•2024

    Discursive choices are recognized by both academic and dementia communities as being central to the perpetuation (or challenging) of dementia-related stigma. Yet, the focus of the vast majority of research on the discursive dynamics of dementia stigma to date has been on the role of language only, effectively failing to regard the multimodal reality of discourse. The present study aims to address this gap by conducting a scoping review of the sma…

  • Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Discourse & Communication•2024•Referencias: 2

    This paper reports on a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the representations of social actors and processes involved in the production of dairy products. Focussing on the website of the UK’s largest dairy company, Arla Foods UK, the analysis interrogates both linguistic and visual choices in representing dairy farmers, dairy cows and the process of dairy farming itself. The analysis demonstrates how recurrent representations function to …

  • Laughter in hospital emergency departments

    Open Access•Susy Macqueen, Leslie Collins et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2024•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 47

    For patients, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are unfamiliar, institutional contexts involving high-stakes communication in heightened emotional circumstances. This study examines laughter, as one expression of emotion, in an existing 649,631-word corpus of naturally occurring clinician-patient interactions recorded in five Australian hospitals. A mixed methods approach revealed (1) the spread, frequency and producers of laughter, and (2) th…

  • Representations of Pro-Choice Protesters in US News Media

    Open Access•Charlotte-Rose Kennedy, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Anglistik und…•2023

    In June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and, with that decision, revoked access to safe abortion for many women across the country. The decision was anticipated and immediately followed by protests from pro-choice campaigners, who challenged the decision, arguing that it would pose a threat to the health of women across the US and compound existing inequalities relating to ethnicity and social class. In this …

  • Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Metaphor and Symbol•2023

    This article examines the metaphors that are used to represent dementia in British tabloid newspapers over a ten-year period (2010–2019). The analysis takes a corpus-based approach to metaphor identification and analysis, utilizing in particular the corpus linguistic technique of collocation analysis. Metaphors are considered in terms of the ‘targets’ they frame, which include the following aspects of dementia: (i.) prevalence; (ii.) causes; (iii…

  • Artificial intelligence and visual discourse

    Open Access•Emma Putland, Chris Chikodzore-Paterson et al.•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    This article examines the ideologies reproduced in AI-generated images, focusing in particular on representations of dementia. Utilising Stable Diffusion version 1.4, a text-to-image AI model, we conduct a multimodal critical discourse analysis of 171 images generated from the text prompt “dementia.” Our analysis aims to identify and contextualise the visual discourses within the generated images by comparing these with existing multimodal repres…

  • Swearing, discourse and function in conversational British English

    Open Access•Tony Mcenery, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2023•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 14

    In this paper we look at the role that macrostructures in discourse have to play in the study of swearing. While studied in isolation, such macrostructures have not yet been studied comprehensively and the range of macrostructures studied has been small. By contrast, work on microstructures is much better developed. In response to this, using spoken corpus data from the BNC2014, we take two approaches to studying discourse in this paper. In the f…

  • Construction of group norms in a radical acceptance online forum for heavy alcohol users

    Open Access•Andrew Lustig, G Brookes•ARTICLE•International Journal of Drug…•2022

  • Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2022•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with hegemonic masculine norms and the latter represented as transgressing or falling short of these norms. We interpret these discourses as providing means for the forum members to resist societal-level dis…

  • Discursive acts of resistance

    Małgorzata Chałupnik, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2022•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 3

    Ogolnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women's Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women's rights issues. Using a critical approach to multimodal discourse analysis, this article analyses the postings of the campaign on its main social media platform, Facebook, investigating closely the types of multimodal sp…

  • Militant, annoying and sexy

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2022•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 6

    This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between the broadsheets and tabloids while others are particular to one format or the other. Vegans tend to be evaluated negatively in this context, portrayed as violent, hypocritical, pushy and irresponsible…

  • Keywords through time

    Open Access•Isobelle Clarke, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2022•Referencias: 2

    This paper applies a new approach to the identification of discourses, based on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), to the study of discourse variation over time. The MCA approach to keywords deals with a major issue with the use of keywords to identify discourses: the allocation of individual keywords to multiple discourses. Yet, as this paper demonstrates, the approach also allows us to observe variation in the prevalence of discourses over…

  • Corpus studies of language through time

    Open Access•Tony Mcenery, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2022

    The study of language through time has long been an area where the corpus approach to the analysis of language has been an important method. The possibility of using other methods, such as elicitation, introspection or psycholinguistic experiments to investigate language in the past is, effectively, eliminated by a simple fact -there is no direct access possible to speakers of language beyond those generations that are living. Our only access to …

  • Corpora in applied linguistics

    Open Access•R Love, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2022

    In April 2021, Aston University hosted the BAAL/Cambridge University Press seminar, Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the seminar, originally scheduled to take place at the Aston University campus, was hosted online. It was organised by Robbie Love (Aston University), Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) and Niall Curry (Coventry University). The aim of the seminar was to bring together r…

  • You said, we did’

    Open Access•Małgorzata Chałupnik, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2021

    In recent years, social and political commentators have criticised the ongoing marketisation of the UK’s state-based healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS). This paper examines the websites of 187 NHS’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), exploring how the CCGs represent themselves and their actions, and considering the extent to which these reflect and indeed enact this process of marketisation. Taking a corpus-based approach to …

  • Remembering Geoffrey Leech

    Open Access•Tony Mcenery, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2021

    This special issue of Text and Talk is dedicated to the memory and many contributions of Geoffrey Leech.Geoff was a great colleague and a hugely influential academic who, as this special issue will show, made significant contributions to an astoundingly wide range of areas of linguistics.We will begin this guest editorial to the special issue by considering Geoff as a person and as a researcher.We will do this by outlining, based on our own memor…

  • Lose weight, save the NHS’

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2021•Citada por: 12•Referencias: 5

    This article examines the discourses that are used by the British press to represent obesity in its coverage of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Obesity is understood to be a risk factor for COVID-19, with people with obesity being more likely to die from the virus. This study adopts a corpus-based approach to Critical Discourse Studies and utilises a novel approach to keyword analysis, based on comparing analysis corpora against two referenc…

  • Narrative evaluation in patient feedback

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery et al.•ARTICLE•Narrative Inquiry•2021•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England. Narratives are pervasive in this context, being present more than absent in the patients’ comments, but are particularly prominent in comments which evaluate ca…

  • Language and Covid-19

    Open Access•Michaela Mahlberg, G Brookes•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2021•Referencias: 1

    Covid-19 has turned the world on its head.The pandemic triggered a global state of medical emergency.But it is more than that.People the world over have been required to make sense of life in new ways.Language is one of the most fundamental tools we have to make sense of our social reality, including its foundational role in constructing and communicating our understandings and experiences of all matters relating to health and illness.As Fox (199…

  • Constructions of migrant integration in British public discourse

    G Brookes

    This book reports the analysis of public discourses around migration and integration in the UK between 2000 and 2010. It comprises eight chapters, with the first half (Chapters 1–4) effectively lay

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  • Our biggest killer”

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey et al.•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2017•Citada por: 18•Referencias: 17

    A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulletin, consistently headlining that dementia was the nation’s “biggest killer,” while (re)formulating other aspects of the report in distorting and emotive metaphorical terms. In this paper we examine h…

  • Looking Through Dementia

    Open Access•Kevin Harvey, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2019•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 68

    Commercial stock images are existing, artificially constructed visuals used by businesses and media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and accessibility, little is known about the ways in which stock images communicate meanings relating to health and illness. This study examines a broad range of common stock images that depict dementia and aging, revealing the tendency for older people with …

  • The utility of topic modelling for discourse studies

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2019•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 19

    This article explores and critically evaluates the potential contribution to discourse studies of topic modelling, a group of machine learning methods which have been used with the aim of automatically discovering thematic information in large collections of texts. We critically evaluate the utility of the thematic grouping of texts into ‘topics’ emerging from a large collection of online patient comments about the National Health Service (NHS) i…

  • Peddling a semiotics of fear

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2014•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 11

    In this study, we critically examine the ways in which a nationwide health promotion campaign – the 2013 Diabetes UK/Tesco diabetes campaign, the largest of its kind in the UK – seeks to raise the general public's awareness of Type 2 diabetes. We subject a series of six campaign images (including their layout and accompanying text) to a multimodal discourse analysis, identifying the presence of a range of fear-inducing, stigmatising and commercia…

  • Lose weight, save the NHS’

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2021•Citada por: 12•Referencias: 5

    This article examines the discourses that are used by the British press to represent obesity in its coverage of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Obesity is understood to be a risk factor for COVID-19, with people with obesity being more likely to die from the virus. This study adopts a corpus-based approach to Critical Discourse Studies and utilises a novel approach to keyword analysis, based on comparing analysis corpora against two referenc…

  • Off to the best start’

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey et al.•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2016•Citada por: 12•Referencias: 17

    This study critically examines the multimodal discourses of baby-feeding practices in contemporary health promotion in the UK. Comparing two parallel texts from the ongoing Start4life campaign (one dedicated to breastfeeding, the other to bottle/formula feeding), our multimodal critical discourse analysis identifies a series of recurring, multisemiotic strategies through which these texts aim to promote breastfeeding as the most desirable, natura…

  • Correlation, collocation and cohesion

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2020•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 7

    This article explores the language of violent jihad, focussing upon lexis encoding concepts from Islam. Through the use of correlation statistics, this article demonstrates that the words encoding such concepts distribute in dependent relationships across different types of texts. The correlation between the words cannot be simply explained in terms of collocation; rather, the correlation is evidence of other forms of cohesion at work in the text…

  • Empowering People to Make Healthier Choices

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2021•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 46

    In response to the heightened risk that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses to the health and lives of people with obesity, in 2020 the U.K. government launched a new package of policies intended to stimulate weight loss among the country's population. In this article, I present a critical discourse analysis of the policy paper which announced these new measures. I identify the discourses that are used to represent things, people, and proce…

  • Discursive acts of resistance

    Małgorzata Chałupnik, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2022•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 3

    Ogolnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women's Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women's rights issues. Using a critical approach to multimodal discourse analysis, this article analyses the postings of the campaign on its main social media platform, Facebook, investigating closely the types of multimodal sp…

  • This is England, speak English!’

    David Wright, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2018•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 14

    This article examines right-leaning press representations of people living in the UK who can’t speak English, or at least speak English well, following the 2011 Census, which was the first to ask respondents about their main language and proficiency in English. The analysis takes a corpus-assisted approach to critical discourse analysis, based on a 1.8 million-word corpus of right-leaning newspaper articles about ‘speak(ing) English’ in the years…

  • Artificial intelligence and visual discourse

    Open Access•Emma Putland, Chris Chikodzore-Paterson et al.•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    This article examines the ideologies reproduced in AI-generated images, focusing in particular on representations of dementia. Utilising Stable Diffusion version 1.4, a text-to-image AI model, we conduct a multimodal critical discourse analysis of 171 images generated from the text prompt “dementia.” Our analysis aims to identify and contextualise the visual discourses within the generated images by comparing these with existing multimodal repres…

  • Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2022•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with hegemonic masculine norms and the latter represented as transgressing or falling short of these norms. We interpret these discourses as providing means for the forum members to resist societal-level dis…

  • Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2016•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 8

    Payday loans constitute one of the most rapidly expanding and controversial forms of consumer lending today. Payday lending – the selling of high-interest, short-term credit – has thrived following the decline of the traditional high street banking system and the reluctance of many mainstream credit services, following the 2007/2008 Global Financial Crisis, to lend to low-income earners. This study examines the website of the industry leader in t…

  • Militant, annoying and sexy

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2022•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 6

    This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between the broadsheets and tabloids while others are particular to one format or the other. Vegans tend to be evaluated negatively in this context, portrayed as violent, hypocritical, pushy and irresponsible…

  • Fear and responsibility

    Open Access•G Brookes, P Baker•ARTICLE•Journal of Risk Research•2021•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 8

    This paper examines how the UK print media represents risk in reporting about obesity. Using corpus linguistics methods (keywords, collocations and consideration of concordance lines) combined with qualitative discourse analysis, references to risk were analysed in a 36-million-word corpus of articles from the national British press about obesity, published between 2008 and 2017. Two main analytical directions were followed: differences between n…

  • Laughter in hospital emergency departments

    Open Access•Susy Macqueen, Leslie Collins et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2024•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 47

    For patients, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are unfamiliar, institutional contexts involving high-stakes communication in heightened emotional circumstances. This study examines laughter, as one expression of emotion, in an existing 649,631-word corpus of naturally occurring clinician-patient interactions recorded in five Australian hospitals. A mixed methods approach revealed (1) the spread, frequency and producers of laughter, and (2) th…

  • Swearing, discourse and function in conversational British English

    Open Access•Tony Mcenery, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2023•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 14

    In this paper we look at the role that macrostructures in discourse have to play in the study of swearing. While studied in isolation, such macrostructures have not yet been studied comprehensively and the range of macrostructures studied has been small. By contrast, work on microstructures is much better developed. In response to this, using spoken corpus data from the BNC2014, we take two approaches to studying discourse in this paper. In the f…

  • Narrative evaluation in patient feedback

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery et al.•ARTICLE•Narrative Inquiry•2021•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England. Narratives are pervasive in this context, being present more than absent in the patients’ comments, but are particularly prominent in comments which evaluate ca…

  • Peddling a semiotics of fear

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2014•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 11

    In this study, we critically examine the ways in which a nationwide health promotion campaign – the 2013 Diabetes UK/Tesco diabetes campaign, the largest of its kind in the UK – seeks to raise the general public's awareness of Type 2 diabetes. We subject a series of six campaign images (including their layout and accompanying text) to a multimodal discourse analysis, identifying the presence of a range of fear-inducing, stigmatising and commercia…

  • Off to the best start’

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey et al.•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2016•Citada por: 12•Referencias: 17

    This study critically examines the multimodal discourses of baby-feeding practices in contemporary health promotion in the UK. Comparing two parallel texts from the ongoing Start4life campaign (one dedicated to breastfeeding, the other to bottle/formula feeding), our multimodal critical discourse analysis identifies a series of recurring, multisemiotic strategies through which these texts aim to promote breastfeeding as the most desirable, natura…

  • Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2016•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 8

    Payday loans constitute one of the most rapidly expanding and controversial forms of consumer lending today. Payday lending – the selling of high-interest, short-term credit – has thrived following the decline of the traditional high street banking system and the reluctance of many mainstream credit services, following the 2007/2008 Global Financial Crisis, to lend to low-income earners. This study examines the website of the industry leader in t…

  • Our biggest killer”

    G Brookes, Kevin Harvey et al.•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2017•Citada por: 18•Referencias: 17

    A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulletin, consistently headlining that dementia was the nation’s “biggest killer,” while (re)formulating other aspects of the report in distorting and emotive metaphorical terms. In this paper we examine h…

  • This is England, speak English!’

    David Wright, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2018•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 14

    This article examines right-leaning press representations of people living in the UK who can’t speak English, or at least speak English well, following the 2011 Census, which was the first to ask respondents about their main language and proficiency in English. The analysis takes a corpus-assisted approach to critical discourse analysis, based on a 1.8 million-word corpus of right-leaning newspaper articles about ‘speak(ing) English’ in the years…

  • The utility of topic modelling for discourse studies

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2019•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 19

    This article explores and critically evaluates the potential contribution to discourse studies of topic modelling, a group of machine learning methods which have been used with the aim of automatically discovering thematic information in large collections of texts. We critically evaluate the utility of the thematic grouping of texts into ‘topics’ emerging from a large collection of online patient comments about the National Health Service (NHS) i…

  • Looking Through Dementia

    Open Access•Kevin Harvey, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2019•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 68

    Commercial stock images are existing, artificially constructed visuals used by businesses and media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and accessibility, little is known about the ways in which stock images communicate meanings relating to health and illness. This study examines a broad range of common stock images that depict dementia and aging, revealing the tendency for older people with …

  • Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008–2017

    Open Access•P Baker, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2020

    Obesity is a persistently newsworthy topic for the UK press and in recent years levels of coverage have increased. In this study, we examine the ways in which obesity has been framed by the press over a ten-year period (2008-2017), focussing both on areas of stability and change. The analysis is based on a ~36 million-word database of all UK newspaper articles mentioning the words 'obese' or 'obesity' published within this time frame and draws up…

  • Correlation, collocation and cohesion

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2020•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 7

    This article explores the language of violent jihad, focussing upon lexis encoding concepts from Islam. Through the use of correlation statistics, this article demonstrates that the words encoding such concepts distribute in dependent relationships across different types of texts. The correlation between the words cannot be simply explained in terms of collocation; rather, the correlation is evidence of other forms of cohesion at work in the text…

  • You said, we did’

    Open Access•Małgorzata Chałupnik, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2021

    In recent years, social and political commentators have criticised the ongoing marketisation of the UK’s state-based healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS). This paper examines the websites of 187 NHS’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), exploring how the CCGs represent themselves and their actions, and considering the extent to which these reflect and indeed enact this process of marketisation. Taking a corpus-based approach to …

  • Remembering Geoffrey Leech

    Open Access•Tony Mcenery, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2021

    This special issue of Text and Talk is dedicated to the memory and many contributions of Geoffrey Leech.Geoff was a great colleague and a hugely influential academic who, as this special issue will show, made significant contributions to an astoundingly wide range of areas of linguistics.We will begin this guest editorial to the special issue by considering Geoff as a person and as a researcher.We will do this by outlining, based on our own memor…

  • Lose weight, save the NHS’

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2021•Citada por: 12•Referencias: 5

    This article examines the discourses that are used by the British press to represent obesity in its coverage of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Obesity is understood to be a risk factor for COVID-19, with people with obesity being more likely to die from the virus. This study adopts a corpus-based approach to Critical Discourse Studies and utilises a novel approach to keyword analysis, based on comparing analysis corpora against two referenc…

  • Narrative evaluation in patient feedback

    Open Access•G Brookes, Tony Mcenery et al.•ARTICLE•Narrative Inquiry•2021•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England. Narratives are pervasive in this context, being present more than absent in the patients’ comments, but are particularly prominent in comments which evaluate ca…

  • Language and Covid-19

    Open Access•Michaela Mahlberg, G Brookes•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2021•Referencias: 1

    Covid-19 has turned the world on its head.The pandemic triggered a global state of medical emergency.But it is more than that.People the world over have been required to make sense of life in new ways.Language is one of the most fundamental tools we have to make sense of our social reality, including its foundational role in constructing and communicating our understandings and experiences of all matters relating to health and illness.As Fox (199…

  • Fear and responsibility

    Open Access•G Brookes, P Baker•ARTICLE•Journal of Risk Research•2021•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 8

    This paper examines how the UK print media represents risk in reporting about obesity. Using corpus linguistics methods (keywords, collocations and consideration of concordance lines) combined with qualitative discourse analysis, references to risk were analysed in a 36-million-word corpus of articles from the national British press about obesity, published between 2008 and 2017. Two main analytical directions were followed: differences between n…

  • Empowering People to Make Healthier Choices

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2021•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 46

    In response to the heightened risk that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses to the health and lives of people with obesity, in 2020 the U.K. government launched a new package of policies intended to stimulate weight loss among the country's population. In this article, I present a critical discourse analysis of the policy paper which announced these new measures. I identify the discourses that are used to represent things, people, and proce…

  • Construction of group norms in a radical acceptance online forum for heavy alcohol users

    Open Access•Andrew Lustig, G Brookes•ARTICLE•International Journal of Drug…•2022

  • Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2022•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with hegemonic masculine norms and the latter represented as transgressing or falling short of these norms. We interpret these discourses as providing means for the forum members to resist societal-level dis…

  • Discursive acts of resistance

    Małgorzata Chałupnik, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2022•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 3

    Ogolnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women's Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women's rights issues. Using a critical approach to multimodal discourse analysis, this article analyses the postings of the campaign on its main social media platform, Facebook, investigating closely the types of multimodal sp…

  • Militant, annoying and sexy

    Open Access•G Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2022•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 6

    This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between the broadsheets and tabloids while others are particular to one format or the other. Vegans tend to be evaluated negatively in this context, portrayed as violent, hypocritical, pushy and irresponsible…

  • Keywords through time

    Open Access•Isobelle Clarke, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2022•Referencias: 2

    This paper applies a new approach to the identification of discourses, based on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), to the study of discourse variation over time. The MCA approach to keywords deals with a major issue with the use of keywords to identify discourses: the allocation of individual keywords to multiple discourses. Yet, as this paper demonstrates, the approach also allows us to observe variation in the prevalence of discourses over…

  • Corpus studies of language through time

    Open Access•Tony Mcenery, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2022

    The study of language through time has long been an area where the corpus approach to the analysis of language has been an important method. The possibility of using other methods, such as elicitation, introspection or psycholinguistic experiments to investigate language in the past is, effectively, eliminated by a simple fact -there is no direct access possible to speakers of language beyond those generations that are living. Our only access to …

  • Corpora in applied linguistics

    Open Access•R Love, G Brookes et al.•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2022

    In April 2021, Aston University hosted the BAAL/Cambridge University Press seminar, Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the seminar, originally scheduled to take place at the Aston University campus, was hosted online. It was organised by Robbie Love (Aston University), Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) and Niall Curry (Coventry University). The aim of the seminar was to bring together r…

  • Representations of Pro-Choice Protesters in US News Media

    Open Access•Charlotte-Rose Kennedy, G Brookes•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Anglistik und…•2023

    In June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and, with that decision, revoked access to safe abortion for many women across the country. The decision was anticipated and immediately followed by protests from pro-choice campaigners, who challenged the decision, arguing that it would pose a threat to the health of women across the US and compound existing inequalities relating to ethnicity and social class. In this …

  • Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids

    Open Access•G Brookes•ARTICLE•Metaphor and Symbol•2023

    This article examines the metaphors that are used to represent dementia in British tabloid newspapers over a ten-year period (2010–2019). The analysis takes a corpus-based approach to metaphor identification and analysis, utilizing in particular the corpus linguistic technique of collocation analysis. Metaphors are considered in terms of the ‘targets’ they frame, which include the following aspects of dementia: (i.) prevalence; (ii.) causes; (iii…

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