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The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., …Schiazza, G. (2023). The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100037

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
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study. Health Communication, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2129649

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
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour. Functions of Language, 29(2), 199-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.21022.vil

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
Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Introduction: From declarations of war to denial to explanations: How global publics have coped with the Covid-19 pandemic. . Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-00i

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (2022)
Book
Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (Eds.). (2022). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730

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
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (185-206). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-010