The efficacy of triangulation has ensured that it is still used today. For example, land
surveyors use distance from and direction to two landmarks in order to elicit bearings on the …

Media coverage of dementia can influence public and professional attitudes towards the
syndrome, shaping societal knowledge of dementia and impacting how people with …

This paper explores how Twitter has been used in the debate on women's right to drive in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The overarching aim of this investigation is to explain …

In this editorial to the special collection “Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma” we outline
the concepts of mental, health, discourse and stigma as they are examined through …

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting
on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental …

As email requests from students to professors have become increasingly common in
academic settings, research has also shown second-language (L2) students' unfamiliarity …

This chapter examines the various approaches discourse analysts have taken to the study of
health communication. It begins by explaining the challenges involved in communicating …

This chapter introduces corpus linguistics–a group of methods that use specialist computer
programmes to study language in large bodies of machine-readable text. In this chapter we …

In recent years corpus linguistic tools have afforded language researchers and health
practitioners a powerful method to learn about the linguistic character of health-related …

This study investigates effects of pragmatics-focused instruction using different types of
written corrective feedback (CF) on the development of pragmatic competence of …