'Am I anorexic?': weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication

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'Am I anorexic?': weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication

This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the strategies used in adolescents’ health questions. W...

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Main Authors:	Mullany, Louise, Smith, Catherine, Harvey, Kevin, Adolphs, Svenja
Format:	Article
Published:	Equinox Publishing 2015
Subjects:	Corpus linguistics Discourses of the body Eating disorders Electronic discourse Sociolinguistics
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32782/

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