A5086987450- Community Health and Development
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Digital Communication and Language
- Freedom of Expression and Defamation
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Law in Society and Culture
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Globalization and Cultural Identity
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Risk Perception and Management
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Cardiff University
2024-2025
University of Nottingham
2022-2024
University of Reading
2022-2023
University of East Anglia
2017-2022
Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is key importance to agencies managing crises, pandemics, and other threats. Established strategies including self-efficacy messaging, fear appeals, moralising messaging were all used during Coronavirus pandemic. We explore understand efficacy these established COVID-19 context. Taking a community-focussed approach, we combine corpus linguistic analysis with methods wider engagement, namely, survey...
Abstract Recovery Colleges (RCs) are mental health learning communities, operated in 28 countries across cultures. However, the RC operational model is informed by Western sharing similar cultural characteristics such as individualism and short-term orientation. How needs to be adapted non-Western culture remains unknown. We investigated how RCs introduced public two with contrasting characteristics: Japan (collectivism, long-term) England (individualism, short-term). Corpus-based discourse...
The concept of ‘resilience’ is pervasive, permeating academic disciplines and political discourses. This paper considers (i) the construal in contexts food insecurity cost-of-living governmental discourses United Kingdom (UK); (ii) to what extent representations are reflected research funding calls UK national bodies, thus showing possibility shaping agendas; (iii) official uses reflect lay understandings. We combining a corpus-based discourse analysis with study focus group discussions....
Abstract Health messaging is effective if it achieves audience adherence to guidance. Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, we examine expression obligation in poster-based health campaigns (4 posters) employed during COVID-19 pandemic UK by considering whether differences grammatical mood and modality values impact on public compliance toward message content. Effects variations are examined through a quantitative-cum-qualitative analysis results from representative survey ( N...
Understanding what makes communication effective when designing public health messages is of key importance. This applies in particular to vaccination campaigns, which aim encourage vaccine uptake and respond hesitancy dispel any myth or misinformation. paper explores the ways governments Great Britain (England, Scotland Wales) promoted COVID-19 as a first-line strategy studies message effectiveness by examining language official across different nations preferences unvaccinated sceptic...
Abstract Hate speech has become a matter of international concern, permeating institutional and lay discussions alike. Yet, exactly what it means to refer linguistic act as ‘hate speech’ remains unclear. This paper examines the understanding hate speech, focusing on (1) relationship between hate, (2) offensive speech. As part second question, considers how is defined legal in UK Public Order Act 1986. The study adopts corpus-based discourse analysis approach 255 speech-related news articles...
Abstract Contemporary public discourse is saturated with speech that vilifies and incites hatred or violence against vulnerable groups. The term “hate speech” has emerged in legal circles ordinary language to refer these communicative acts. But theorists philosophers disagree over how define this term. This paper makes the case for, subsequently develops, first corpus-based analysis of meaning speech.” We begin by demonstrating key interpretive moral disputes surrounding hate laws—in...
Abstract This article considers the application of Attitude framework ( Martin & White 2005 ) to study evaluation human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined systematised better operationalise analysis General linguistic triggers are identified for evaluations, annotation scheme applied in a corpus texts from different registers (a psychiatric manual, educational guidelines informal online exchanges) concerned with ADHD....
Inattention, one of the defining traits Attention Deficit Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Disorder (ADHD), is occasionally perceived as less worrying than hyperactivity and impulsivity. However, those individuals who manifest it are often targets negative misjudgements. This paper examines how symptom inattention understood among three social groups with an active role in ADHD diagnosis: medical, educational family communities. It pays particular attention to (1) similarities across (2)...
The concept of ‘resilience’ is pervasive, permeating academic disciplines and political discourses. This paper considers (i) the construal in contexts food insecurity cost-of-living governmental discourses United Kingdom (UK); (ii) to what extent representations are reflected research funding calls UK national bodies, thus showing possibility shaping agendas; (iii) official uses reflect lay understandings. We combining a corpus-based discourse analysis with study focus group discussions....
<sec> <title>UNSTRUCTURED</title> The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how critical discourse analysis (CDA) frameworks can be used in cross-cultural mental health recovery research. CDA a qualitative approach that critically appraises language contributes producing and reinforcing social inequalities. regards linguistic productions as reflecting, consciously or unconsciously, the narrators’ understandings of, attitudes about, phenomena. Mental research aims identify address power...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how critical discourse analysis (CDA) frameworks can be used in cross-cultural mental health recovery research. CDA a qualitative approach that critically appraises language contributes producing and reinforcing social inequalities. regards linguistic productions as reflecting, consciously or unconsciously, the narrators' understandings of, attitudes about, phenomena. Mental research aims identify address power differentials, making potentially...
Abstract Teaching and family communities usually have an active role in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis childhood. Examining the construal of hyperactivity-impulsivity teaching guidelines online parental exchanges can elucidate common lay understandings trait. The study considers transitivity , with a focus on Relational Behavioural clauses, lexical metaphors appraisals. linguistic descriptions potential to assist medical specialists interpreting...
This paper examines the role of modality resources (e.g. "may," "often") in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-5) representing behavioral pathology focusing, particular, on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD diagnosis requires reports non-practitioners carers teachers); an effective understanding descriptors by lay community is thus paramount importance. The study combines qualitative linguistic discourse analysis a corpus approach to presence...