Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic

Adolphs, Svenja; McAuley, Derek; Vilar-Lluch, Sara; Knight, Dawn; McClaughlin, Emma; Nichele, Elena; Clos, Jeremie; Barnard, Pepita; Parnell, Tamsin; Lang, Alexandra

doi:10.17639/q2y9-3r02

Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic

Adolphs, Svenja; McAuley, Derek; Vilar-Lluch, Sara; Knight, Dawn; McClaughlin, Emma; Nichele, Elena; Clos, Jeremie; Barnard, Pepita; Parnell, Tamsin; Lang, Alexandra

Authors

SVENJA ADOLPHS SVENJA.ADOLPHS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of English Language and Linguistics

Derek McAuley

Sara Vilar-Lluch

Dawn Knight

Dr EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN EMMA.MCCLAUGHLIN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Research Fellow

Elena Nichele

JEREMIE CLOS JEREMIE.CLOS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Assistant Professor

Dr PEPITA BARNARD Pepita.Barnard@nottingham.ac.uk
Research Fellow

TAMSIN PARNELL Tamsin.Parnell2@nottingham.ac.uk
Research Assistant

ALEXANDRA LANG Alexandra.Lang@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Contributors

SVENJA ADOLPHS SVENJA.ADOLPHS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Project Leader

Derek McAuley
Researcher

Sara Vilar-Lluch
Researcher

Dawn Knight
Researcher

Dr EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN EMMA.MCCLAUGHLIN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Researcher

Elena Nichele
Researcher

JEREMIE CLOS JEREMIE.CLOS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Researcher

Dr PEPITA BARNARD Pepita.Barnard@nottingham.ac.uk
Researcher

Tamsin Parnell
Researcher

ALEXANDRA LANG Alexandra.Lang@nottingham.ac.uk
Researcher

Citation

Adolphs, S., McAuley, D., Vilar-Lluch, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., …Lang, A. (2023). Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nottingham: University of Nottingham

Report Type	Project Report
Online Publication Date	Mar 21, 2023
Publication Date	Mar 21, 2023
Deposit Date	Mar 21, 2023
Publicly Available Date	Mar 23, 2023
Pages	43
DOI	https://doi.org/10.17639/q2y9-3r02
Keywords	COVID_19, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, public health communication, health literacies
Public URL	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/18808325