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Participation, Perplexity and Plurality: Exploring the Shared Reading of a ‘Difficult’ Poem (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Harvey, K. (2020). Participation, Perplexity and Plurality: Exploring the Shared Reading of a ‘Difficult’ Poem. Changing English, 27(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2019.1702455

In this article, we explore how adults in a community shared reading group discuss the notoriously difficult poem ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’ by the American poet Wallace Stevens. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s notion of action, we explore how participant... Read More about Participation, Perplexity and Plurality: Exploring the Shared Reading of a ‘Difficult’ Poem.

Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press (2019)
Journal Article
Bailey, A., Dening, T., & Harvey, K. (2021). Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press. Ageing and Society, 41(2), 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X19001120

Media coverage of dementia can influence public and professional attitudes towards the syndrome, shaping societal knowledge of dementia and impacting how people with dementia are cared for. This paper reports on a study of news articles about dementi... Read More about Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press.

Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline? (2018)
Journal Article
Harvey, K., & Brookes, G. (2018). Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline?. Qualitative Health Research, 29(7), 104973231881454. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318814542

Commercial stock images are existing, artificially-constructed visuals used by businesses and mass media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and ready accessibility, little is known about the way... Read More about Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline?.

Emotional distress with dementia: a systematic review using corpus‐based analysis and metaethnography (2018)
Journal Article
Petty, S., Harvey, K., Griffiths, A., Coleston-Shields, D. M., & Dening, T. (in press). Emotional distress with dementia: a systematic review using corpus‐based analysis and metaethnography. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4870

Objective: More understanding is needed about the emotional experiences of dementia from the perspective of the individual. This understanding can then inform the provision of health care to meet individual needs. This systematic review aimed to pres... Read More about Emotional distress with dementia: a systematic review using corpus‐based analysis and metaethnography.

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication (2016)
Journal Article
Mullany, L., Smith, C., Harvey, K., & Adolphs, S. (2016). ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication. Communication and Medicine, 12(2-3), 211-223. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.16692

This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the s... Read More about ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication.

"He should have put them in the freezer": creating and connecting through shared reading (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Harvey, K. (2015). "He should have put them in the freezer": creating and connecting through shared reading. Journal of Arts and Communities, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.1386/jaac.7.3.153_1

Shared reading involves reading short stories, poems, novels and plays aloud with groups of people who meet in a range of settings. Readings are conducted by a facilitator, after which the group members share their responses to the texts. The social... Read More about "He should have put them in the freezer": creating and connecting through shared reading.

Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, C., Adolphs, S., Harvey, K., & Mullany, L. (2014). Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus. Corpora, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2014.0055

The abundance of language data that is now available in digital form, and the rise of distinct language varieties that are used for digital communication, means that issues of non-standard spellings and spelling errors are, in future, likely to becom... Read More about Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus.