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250 pages ; 23 cm. "Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistic methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres. Offering a critical review of the field, discussion of extended case studies, and practical exercises based on spoken, written and digital language data, this book: introduces the fields of health communication and corpus linguistics, and critically reviews cutting-edge studies in the burgeoning area of corpus-based health communication; describes the processes involved in planning a corpus linguistic study of health communication, including designing and building a corpus, selecting tools, and implementing techniques of analysis; demonstrates how corpus linguistic methods can - and have - been applied to the study of spoken, written and digital health communication, offering critical reflections and suggesting areas for future development. Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication is essential reading for those working at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication. Both those with a little or a lot of experience in either field will find value in its pages"-- Introducing health communication and corpus linguistics -- Designing and building a corpus -- Analysing a corpus -- Spoken health communication -- Written health communication -- Digital health communication -- Conclusion. Gavin Brookes and Luke Curtis Collins. Includes bibliographical references and index. Communication in medicine Data processing Corpora (Linguistics) R118 .B67 2024 610.14 B790c Brookes, Gavin $c (Linguist). Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 (DLC) 2023034263 9780367568436 2023034262 DLC 231006 20261022131718.0 23343826 eng