Language, discourse and anxiety / Luke Collins, Paul Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Luke, author.

Baker, Paul, 1972- author.

Series:

Cambridge applied linguistics series

Cambridge applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and emotions.

Language and the Internet.

Anxiety--Electronic discussion groups.

Anxiety.

English language--Psychological aspects.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Anxiety, online fora and this study

Sketching anxiety

The lived experience

Creating a community

Sex and gender

Comparing cultures

Time.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009250139 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.