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

All Outputs (4)

Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’ (2023)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2023). Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 11(2), 279-306. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00082.vil

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
Lepoutre, M., Vilar-Lluch, S., Borg, E., & Hansen, N. (2023). What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach. Criminal Law and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-023-09675-7

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
Vilar-Lluch, S., McClaughlin, E., Knight, D., Adolphs, S., & Nichele, E. (in press). The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19. Medical Humanities, 49(3), 487-496. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012583

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)
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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