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The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article
VILAR-LLUCH, S., McClaughlin, E., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., & Nichelle, E. (in press). The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19. Text and Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse and Communication Studies,

Health messaging is effective if it is to achieve audience adherence to guidance. Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, we examine the expression of obligation in poster-based health campaigns (4 posters) employed during the COVID-19 p... Read More about The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19.

Social understanding of inattention: An examination of the representation of inattentive behaviour in clinical, educational and family textual contexts (2024)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2024). Social understanding of inattention: An examination of the representation of inattentive behaviour in clinical, educational and family textual contexts. Communication and Medicine, 19(1), 26-41. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.22379

Inattention, one of the defining traits of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Disorder (ADHD), is occasionally perceived as less worrying than hyperactivity and impulsivity. However, those individuals who manifest it are often targets of neg... Read More about Social understanding of inattention: An examination of the representation of inattentive behaviour in clinical, educational and family textual contexts.

Cross-cultural Comparison of Recovery College Implementation Between Japan and England: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Miyamoto, Y., Vilar-Lluch, S., Aizawa, I., Reilly, O., Miwa, A., …Eguchi, S. (2024). Cross-cultural Comparison of Recovery College Implementation Between Japan and England: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-024-01356-3

Recovery Colleges (RCs) are mental health learning communities, operated in 28 countries across cultures. However, the RC operational model is informed by Western countries sharing similar cultural characteristics such as individualism and short-term... Read More about Cross-cultural Comparison of Recovery College Implementation Between Japan and England: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis.