Leslie Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 96849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8826-5561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Corpus Analysis of Online Communication
The connectivity of the Internet has created new ways of interacting and facilitated new communicative practices. Online communication is of interest to corpus linguists not only as an ever‐expanding domain of language interaction but also with respect to the particular affordances of networked technologies for corpus construction and accessibility. This entry will offer an overview of how procedures from corpus linguistics, which is characterize…
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: Comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank
Visual representations in news media contribute to the social construction of health concerns such as obesity. Media representations of obesity, however, have been shown to be stigmatizing, focusing on disembodied abdomens or depicting people in ill-fitting clothing, for example. In addition, analyses of image representations have typically focused on small datasets and relied upon inductive thematic coding. This article presents the application …
Laughter in hospital emergency departments
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…
Knowledge about HIV-Related Services Among Young Blacks with Diverse Sexual Identities: An Intra-racial Analysis
Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing
Triangulating corpus linguistic approaches with other (linguistic and non-linguistic) approaches enhances “both the rigour of corpus linguistics and its incorporation into all kinds of research” ( McEnery & Hardie, 2012 : 227). Our study investigates an important area of mental health research: the experiences of those who hear voices that others cannot hear, and particularly the ways in which those voices are described as person-like. We apply c…
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ‘risk’ in the news
This study investigates 'risk' as discussed in news coverage and in relation to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): a treatment that has been proven to restrict the transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In the U.S. and the U.K. & Ireland, there are issues concerning the provision and take-up of PrEP, which can lead to health inequalities. Raising awareness and tackling stigma are priorities in ensuring that those who would benefit …
Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: Combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology
In this paper, we use concepts and insights from the literary linguistic study of story-world characters to shed new light on the nature of voices as social agents in the context of lived experience accounts of voice-hearing. We demonstrate a considerable overlap between approaches to voices as social agents in clinical psychology and the perception of characters in the linguistic study of fiction, but argue that the literary linguistic approach …
PrEP in the press: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers
This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic representations of the users of PrEP within three leading British newspapers from across the political spectrum between 2014-18. We find that users of PrEP are most frequently positioned as 'men who have s…
I Feel Blacker: Applying a Black Feminist Paradigm to an Intervention Program for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in the South
Discriminating volcanic centers with handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (Libs)
Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010–2015)? A transitivity analysis
The increase in infections resistant to the existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe; however, among the public there is a sense that this is an issue beyond their control. Research has shown that the news media can have a significant role to play in the public’s understanding of science and medicine. In this article, we respond to a call by research counci…
Resident experts: The potential of critical Participatory Action Research to inform public housing research and practice
Policies affecting those living in poverty are often created without the direct and meaningful participation of the people meant to be served. This has been especially the case with public housing. To contextualize the need for alternative approaches to inquiry, we begin by examining the history of public housing through the lens of oppression and present critical Participatory Action Research as an alternative approach to research and policy-mak…
How certain is ‘certain’? Exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report
This article presents findings from an analysis of English-language media reports following the publication of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report in September 2013. Focusing on the way they reported the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s use of ‘calibrated’ language, we find that of 1906 articles relating to the issuing of the report only 272 articles (14.27%) convey the use of a deliberate and systemat…
Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care
Examining User Comments for Deliberative Democracy: A Corpus-driven Analysis of the Climate Change Debate Online
The public perception of climate change is characterized by heterogeneity, even polarization. Deliberative discussion is regarded by some as key to overcoming polarization and engaging various publics with the complex issue of climate change. In this context, online engagement with news stories is seen as a space for a new “deliberative democratic potential” to emerge. This article examines aspects of deliberation in user comment threads in respo…
Observing Privilege: Examining Race, Class, and Gender in Health and Human Service Organizations
Race, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases and that endeavor to redress social inequality through service and program provision. Foucault (1975, 1980) as well as Andersen and Collins’s (2007) theories provide a means to conceptualize race, class, and gender as power proc…
The Veggie Project: A Case Study of a Multi-component Farmers’ Market Intervention
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Youth Development and School Climate Change: The Alignment Enhanced Services Project
AES offers a method for engaging the stakeholders in addressing critical issues related to youth development and school climate
Studies in Characterization in the Iliad
The Wrath of Paris: Ethical Vocabulary and Ethical Type in the Iliad
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
PrEP in the press: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers
This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic representations of the users of PrEP within three leading British newspapers from across the political spectrum between 2014-18. We find that users of PrEP are most frequently positioned as 'men who have s…
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ‘risk’ in the news
This study investigates 'risk' as discussed in news coverage and in relation to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): a treatment that has been proven to restrict the transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In the U.S. and the U.K. & Ireland, there are issues concerning the provision and take-up of PrEP, which can lead to health inequalities. Raising awareness and tackling stigma are priorities in ensuring that those who would benefit …
I Feel Blacker: Applying a Black Feminist Paradigm to an Intervention Program for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in the South
Resident experts: The potential of critical Participatory Action Research to inform public housing research and practice
Policies affecting those living in poverty are often created without the direct and meaningful participation of the people meant to be served. This has been especially the case with public housing. To contextualize the need for alternative approaches to inquiry, we begin by examining the history of public housing through the lens of oppression and present critical Participatory Action Research as an alternative approach to research and policy-mak…
Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care
Laughter in hospital emergency departments
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…
Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing
Triangulating corpus linguistic approaches with other (linguistic and non-linguistic) approaches enhances “both the rigour of corpus linguistics and its incorporation into all kinds of research” ( McEnery & Hardie, 2012 : 227). Our study investigates an important area of mental health research: the experiences of those who hear voices that others cannot hear, and particularly the ways in which those voices are described as person-like. We apply c…
Observing Privilege: Examining Race, Class, and Gender in Health and Human Service Organizations
Race, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases and that endeavor to redress social inequality through service and program provision. Foucault (1975, 1980) as well as Andersen and Collins’s (2007) theories provide a means to conceptualize race, class, and gender as power proc…
Studies in Characterization in the Iliad
Discriminating volcanic centers with handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (Libs)
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Youth Development and School Climate Change: The Alignment Enhanced Services Project
AES offers a method for engaging the stakeholders in addressing critical issues related to youth development and school climate
The Wrath of Paris: Ethical Vocabulary and Ethical Type in the Iliad
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
The Wrath of Paris: Ethical Vocabulary and Ethical Type in the Iliad
Studies in Characterization in the Iliad
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Youth Development and School Climate Change: The Alignment Enhanced Services Project
AES offers a method for engaging the stakeholders in addressing critical issues related to youth development and school climate
The Veggie Project: A Case Study of a Multi-component Farmers’ Market Intervention
Observing Privilege: Examining Race, Class, and Gender in Health and Human Service Organizations
Race, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases and that endeavor to redress social inequality through service and program provision. Foucault (1975, 1980) as well as Andersen and Collins’s (2007) theories provide a means to conceptualize race, class, and gender as power proc…
Examining User Comments for Deliberative Democracy: A Corpus-driven Analysis of the Climate Change Debate Online
The public perception of climate change is characterized by heterogeneity, even polarization. Deliberative discussion is regarded by some as key to overcoming polarization and engaging various publics with the complex issue of climate change. In this context, online engagement with news stories is seen as a space for a new “deliberative democratic potential” to emerge. This article examines aspects of deliberation in user comment threads in respo…
How certain is ‘certain’? Exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report
This article presents findings from an analysis of English-language media reports following the publication of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report in September 2013. Focusing on the way they reported the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s use of ‘calibrated’ language, we find that of 1906 articles relating to the issuing of the report only 272 articles (14.27%) convey the use of a deliberate and systemat…
Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care
Discriminating volcanic centers with handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (Libs)
Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010–2015)? A transitivity analysis
The increase in infections resistant to the existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe; however, among the public there is a sense that this is an issue beyond their control. Research has shown that the news media can have a significant role to play in the public’s understanding of science and medicine. In this article, we respond to a call by research counci…
Resident experts: The potential of critical Participatory Action Research to inform public housing research and practice
Policies affecting those living in poverty are often created without the direct and meaningful participation of the people meant to be served. This has been especially the case with public housing. To contextualize the need for alternative approaches to inquiry, we begin by examining the history of public housing through the lens of oppression and present critical Participatory Action Research as an alternative approach to research and policy-mak…
I Feel Blacker: Applying a Black Feminist Paradigm to an Intervention Program for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in the South
Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: Combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology
In this paper, we use concepts and insights from the literary linguistic study of story-world characters to shed new light on the nature of voices as social agents in the context of lived experience accounts of voice-hearing. We demonstrate a considerable overlap between approaches to voices as social agents in clinical psychology and the perception of characters in the linguistic study of fiction, but argue that the literary linguistic approach …
PrEP in the press: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers
This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic representations of the users of PrEP within three leading British newspapers from across the political spectrum between 2014-18. We find that users of PrEP are most frequently positioned as 'men who have s…
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ‘risk’ in the news
This study investigates 'risk' as discussed in news coverage and in relation to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): a treatment that has been proven to restrict the transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In the U.S. and the U.K. & Ireland, there are issues concerning the provision and take-up of PrEP, which can lead to health inequalities. Raising awareness and tackling stigma are priorities in ensuring that those who would benefit …
Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing
Triangulating corpus linguistic approaches with other (linguistic and non-linguistic) approaches enhances “both the rigour of corpus linguistics and its incorporation into all kinds of research” ( McEnery & Hardie, 2012 : 227). Our study investigates an important area of mental health research: the experiences of those who hear voices that others cannot hear, and particularly the ways in which those voices are described as person-like. We apply c…
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: Comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank
Visual representations in news media contribute to the social construction of health concerns such as obesity. Media representations of obesity, however, have been shown to be stigmatizing, focusing on disembodied abdomens or depicting people in ill-fitting clothing, for example. In addition, analyses of image representations have typically focused on small datasets and relied upon inductive thematic coding. This article presents the application …
Laughter in hospital emergency departments
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…
Knowledge about HIV-Related Services Among Young Blacks with Diverse Sexual Identities: An Intra-racial Analysis
Corpus Analysis of Online Communication
The connectivity of the Internet has created new ways of interacting and facilitated new communicative practices. Online communication is of interest to corpus linguists not only as an ever‐expanding domain of language interaction but also with respect to the particular affordances of networked technologies for corpus construction and accessibility. This entry will offer an overview of how procedures from corpus linguistics, which is characterize…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (4 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Law (4 works)