All Outputs (7)

‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen (2022)
Journal Article

This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with... Read More about ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article

Background: This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives.

‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse (2016)
Journal Article

This study critically examines the multimodal discourses of baby-feeding practices in contemporary health promotion in the UK. Comparing two parallel texts from the ongoing Start4life campaign (one dedicated to breastfeeding, the other to bottle/form... Read More about ‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse.

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication (2016)
Journal Article

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.

Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus (2014)
Journal Article

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.