Browsing Laurel Smith Stvan. Ph.D. by Subject "Health discourse"
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Corpus linguistics of the vernacular: “catching a cold” in text types that complement Google Books data
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2014-04-11) -
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, July 20-22)Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ... -
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-06-07)Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...