Language, Discourse and Anxiety

Luke Collins (Lancaster University), Paul Baker (Lancaster University)

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Cambridge University Press
22 June 2023

Semantics; Language teaching theory & methods; Psychology; Coping with anxiety & phobias

Series: Cambridge Applied Linguistics

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.

By: Luke Collins (Lancaster University), Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 403g
ISBN: 9781009250122
ISBN 10: 1009250124
Series: Cambridge Applied Linguistics
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 22 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luke Collins is a Senior Research Associate with the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University, specialising in the study of health and digital communication using corpus linguistics. Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. He has written twenty-two books on various aspects of language, discourse and corpus linguistics. He is commissioning editor of the journal Corpora and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.