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 …

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 …

Construction grammar (CxG) initially arose as a usage-based alternative to nativist
theoretical accounts of language, and remains to this day strongly associated with cognitive …

This Element explores approaches to locating and examining social identity in corpora with
and without the aid of demographic metadata. This is a key concern in corpus-aided studies …

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 …

Background: Gangstalking refers to a novel persecutory belief system wherein sufferers
believe that they are being followed, watched, and harassed by a vast network of people in …

Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of
demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The …

This study examines the relationship between the length of time since a patient received
their first treatment for cancer and the feedback they give on that treatment. The analysis is …

Background: Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant that affects the central
nervous system. Crystal methamphetamine is a form of the drug resembling glass fragments …

Background Discharge letters are crucial during care transitions from hospital to home.
Research indicates a need for improvement to increase quality of care and decrease …