Book contents
- Obesity in the News
- Obesity in the News
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Way In
- 3 Studying Difference
- 4 Change over Time
- 5 Shaming and Reclaiming
- 6 Healthy Body
- 7 Gendered Discourses of Obesity
- 8 ‘A Disease of the Poor’? Obesity and Social Class
- 9 Going ‘Below-the-Line’
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Obesity, the News and This Study
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2021
Book contents
- Obesity in the News
- Obesity in the News
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Way In
- 3 Studying Difference
- 4 Change over Time
- 5 Shaming and Reclaiming
- 6 Healthy Body
- 7 Gendered Discourses of Obesity
- 8 ‘A Disease of the Poor’? Obesity and Social Class
- 9 Going ‘Below-the-Line’
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This introductory chapter lays the theoretical and methodological groundwork for the rest of the monograph. It begins by introducing the topic of obesity and by reviewing existing (linguistic) research on it. It then introduces the context of the UK news media in detail. Finally, the chapter introduces the corpus of obesity newspaper articles assembled for this study and the methodological approach we use to analyse this data, which combines corpus linguistics with critical discourse studies.
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- Obesity in the NewsLanguage and Representation in the Press, pp. 1 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021