Overview: Analyses a corpus of over 16,000 British newspaper articles about obesity, totaling 9.7 million words.Explores the sociological effects of media conceptualisations of weight and obesity.Reveals how diThis book is a linguistic analysis of the British obesity media narrative, analysing a large corpus of published newspaper articles to demonstrate how the language used perpetuates common misconceptions and stereotypes about weight and obesity, and then exploring the sociological effects of these widespread conceptualisations. Weight stigma and weight bias are misunderstood issues, and o
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