33.3311, Books: Analysing Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback: Baker, Brookes

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:16:41
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Analysing Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback: Baker, Brookes

 


Title: Analysing Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback 
Subtitle: A Comparison of Approaches 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/analysing-language-sex-and-age-corpus-patient-feedback-comparison-approaches?fo 


Author: Paul Baker
Author: Gavin Brookes

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009013772 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 20.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009013772 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 15.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009013772 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 17.51


Abstract:

This Element explores approaches to locating and examining social identity in
corpora with and without the aid of demographic metadata. This is a key
concern in corpus-aided studies of language and identity, and this Element
sets out to explore the main challenges and affordances associated with either
approach and to discern what either approach can (and cannot) show. It
describes two case studies which each compare two approaches to social
identity variables – sex and age – in a corpus of 14-million words of patient
comments about NHS cancer services in England. The first approach utilises
demographic tags to group comments according to patients' sex/age while the
second involves categorising cases where patients disclose their sex/age in
their comments. This Element compares the findings from either approach, with
the approaches themselves being critically discussed in terms of their
implications for corpus-aided studies of language and identity.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Patient sex; 3. Patient age; 4. Conclusion and
reflections; References.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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