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Language, Discourse and Anxiety

By Paul Baker , Luke Collins

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781009250085, 9781009250139, 9781009250122
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1627373 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
264\277
Time added
2023-06-17 10:29:20

Description

Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety. It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety, as well as how aspects of identity like age, sex and cultural background can impact on understandings of anxiety and how it ought to be managed. It tracks the changing identities of posters, from their first posts to their last, and incorporates a range of corpus-based techniques to examine the language data, enabling consideration of interaction between participants and features associated with online forms of communication like emoji. It ultimately provides a step towards a better understanding of different responses to anxiety and aims to promote further engagement with this topic in the field of applied linguistics.

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