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SUMMARY:Talk: Obesity in the News: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse S
 tudies Perspective (05.11.2024\, 6.00 pm)
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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I present findings from the Representations
  of Obesity in the News project – a recent programme of work carried
  out within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at
  Lancaster University. The aim of this project was to examine the disc
 ourses that the British press draws upon to represent the topic of obe
 sity. To do this\, we assembled and analysed a 36-million-word corpus 
 of national British newspaper articles about obesity published between
  2008 and 2017. Using a corpus-based approach to Critical Discourse St
 udies\, this project has explored how the press represents people with
  obesity in ways that stigmatise them\, how such representations vary 
 according to newspaper formats\, political leanings\, and social varia
 bles such as gender and social class\, as well as how these representa
 tions have changed over time. This talk will cover some of the main fi
 ndings in relation to these and our other areas of focus. It will also
  consider what we can take away from this project in terms of applying
  and developing corpus linguistic approaches to study health-related d
 iscourse.
DTSTART:20241105T180000Z
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LOCATION:Room 3.17\, Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61\, Erlangen
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