(Mis)representing weight and obesity in the British press : fear, divisiveness, shame and stigma / Tara Coltman-Patel.

This 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 wi...

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Main Author: Coltman-Patel, Tara (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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