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Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research: Positive Changes and No Value Judgement (2024)
Working Paper

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) frameworks can be used in cross-cultural mental health recovery research. CDA is a qualitative approach that critically appraises how language contributes to produce an... Read More about Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research: Positive Changes and No Value Judgement.

Cross-cultural comparison of Recovery College implementation between Japan and England: Corpus-based discourse analysis (2024)
Journal Article

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.

Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’ (2023)
Journal Article

Hate speech has become a matter of international concern, permeating institutional and lay discussions alike. Yet, exactly what it means to refer to a linguistic act as ‘hate speech’ remains unclear. This paper examines the lay understanding of hate... Read More about Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’.

What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach (2023)
Journal Article

Contemporary public discourse is saturated with speech that vilifies and incites hatred or violence against vulnerable groups. The term “hate speech” has emerged in legal circles and in ordinary language to refer to these communicative acts. But lega... Read More about What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach.

The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

Understanding what makes communication effective when designing public health messages is of key importance. This applies in particular to vaccination campaigns, which aim to encourage vaccine uptake and respond to vaccine hesitancy and dispel any my... Read More about The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19.

Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Report

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategi... Read More about The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study (2022)
Journal Article

This paper examines the role of modality resources (e.g. “may,” “often”) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in representing behavioral pathology focusing, in particular, on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (A... Read More about Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study.

Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour (2022)
Journal Article

This article considers the application of the Attitude framework (Martin & White 2005) to study the evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined and systematised to better... Read More about Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour.

Introduction: From declarations of war to denial to explanations: How global publics have coped with the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
Book Chapter

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (2022)
Book

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume a... Read More about Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy.

Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships (2022)
Book Chapter

Review of Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Cadierno & Castañeda Castro (2019): Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 (2021)
Journal Article