"Our biggest killer": multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press

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"Our biggest killer": multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press

A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulletin, consistently headlining that dementia was the...

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Main Authors:	Brookes, Gavin, Harvey, Kevin, Chadborn, Neil, Dening, Tom
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Online 2017
Subjects:	Dementia; Alzheimer’s disease; Media; Office for National Statistics; Multimodal critical discourse analysis; Photography; Neuroimaging
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49898/

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