Over the past two decades, scholars have investigated a multitude of different aspects of
motherhood. This article provides a scoping review of research published from 2001 to …

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a particular strand of discourse analysis that focuses on
the role of language in society and in political processes, traditionally targeting texts …

We often hear that society is becoming more visual, that we are becoming dominated by 'the
image'. It is certainly true that technology has made it much easier for us to produce and …

Since its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot's Language and Gender has been a leading
textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth …

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 …

Background Although breastfeeding has been extensively studied, there remains a paucity
of data about the breastfeeding experiences of disabled women. Despite indications of …

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 UK government launched a new …

Commercial stock images are existing, artificially constructed visuals used by businesses
and media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their …

Existing feminist analyses of infant feeding practices have examined the promotion of long-
term exclusive direct breastfeeding (DBF) as symbolic of “total motherhood”(Wolf 2011) …

The approaches to discourse introduced so far in this book are all best suited to the analysis
of language and therefore to texts that contain just, or primarily, this mode of communication …