(Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press : Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma / / Tara Coltman-Patel

• Autore: Coltman-Patel Tara
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.398
• Soggetto topico: Obesity - Social conditions - Great Britain; Obesity in mass media
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Weight, Stigma, News Media, and This Research -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background -- 1.2.1 Obesity and BMI -- 1.2.2 Weight Bias and Weight Stigma -- 1.2.3 Obesity in News Media -- 1.3 Data and Approach -- 1.3.1 Obesity in the British Press (OiBP) Corpus Design -- 1.3.2 OiBP Collection and Clean-up -- 1.3.3 Analytical Approach -- 1.3.4 Corpus Linguistics: Tools and Techniques -- 1.3.5 Critical Discourse Analysis -- 1.3.6 Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis -- 1.4 Analysis Introduction: The Results Which Will Inform All Analyses -- 1.4.1 Chapter 2: Fear: Expert Voices and the (Mis)Representation of Science and Health -- 1.4.2 Chapter 3: Divisiveness: The Metaphorical Conceptualisation of Obesity -- 1.4.3 Chapter 4: Shame: Challenging Linguistic Strategies of Representation -- 1.4.4 Chapter 5: Conclusion -- References -- 2: Fear: Expert Voices and the (Mis)Representation of Science and Health -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Trust Me, I'm a Doctor: Establishing Trust and Authority Through Expert Voices -- 2.2.1 Prevalence of Experts -- 2.2.2 Legitimation -- 2.2.3 Authorisation Through Social Actors -- 2.2.4 Authorisation Through Reporting Verbs -- 2.2.5 Topics Introduced by the Social Actor + Reporting Verb Collocate Pairs -- 2.3 Weight, Health, and Public Services -- 2.3.1 Imbalance: BMI -- 2.3.2 Imbalance: Social Determinants of Health -- 2.3.3 Burden on Public Resources -- 2.4 Approaches to Health (Weight Normative) -- 2.5 Chapter Conclusions: The Perfect Storm -- References -- 3: Divisiveness: The Metaphorical Conceptualisation of Obesity -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Metaphors -- 3.2.1 Theoretical Framework -- 3.2.2 Quantifying the Metaphors -- 3.3 Dehumanisation: The Obesity Epidemic Is a Ticking Timebomb. ; 3.3.1 Is Obesity an Epidemic? -- 3.3.2 The Obesity Epidemic -- 3.3.3 A Misleading Narrative -- 3.3.4 Obesity Is a Ticking Timebomb -- 3.4 Social Division -- 3.4.1 Noun Variations of the obesity is war Metaphors -- 3.4.2 Verb Variations of the obesity is war Metaphors -- 3.5 Chapter Conclusion: The Sociological Impact of These Metaphors -- References -- 4: Shame: Challenging Linguistic Strategies of Representation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Linguistic Strategies of Representation: van Dijk's Ideological Square -- 4.3 Data and Down-Sampling -- 4.3.1 I Feel Beautiful … Now -- Feel/Felt + positive adjectives -- 4.4 I'm Ugly … Now -- 4.5 Internalised Bias and Negative Self-Representation -- 4.5.1 Negative Self-Representation: 'I Was' and 'I Am' -- 4.6 Selling Shame -- 4.7 Chapter Conclusion -- References -- 5: Conclusion -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Critical Reflections -- 5.3 Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma -- 5.4 Further Directions -- 5.5 Action Research -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press
• ISBN: 3-031-44854-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910760278003321
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