Please join us for the first research seminar of 2021-22 on Wednesday 13th October. These will be held on Teams this semester. If you are a Salford postgraduate student or graduate who would like to attend this event, please contact Caroline Magennis on c.magennis@salford.ac.uk
How do we talk about ‘having’ mental illness? Using corpus linguistics to explore the lexicogrammatical properties of experiencing and suffering in the MI 1984-2014 corpus.
Hazel is an Academic Fellow based at the University of Salford, UK. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis and pragmatics. Her research uses methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to explore health communication, particularly in relation to mental illness. Hazel’s recent research has focussed on how the UK press represent issues concerning mental illness and how this can be said to affect society’s view of mental illness.
Hazel is also interested in the application of research in linguistics, particularly through public engagement initiatives and public linguistics. In 2018, she edited a book related to this topic with Dan McIntyre for Routledge entitled Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda. In 2021, she co-authored The Babel Lexicon of Language, an accessible introduction to the key terminology involved in the study of language (published by Cambridge University Press). Her forthcoming monograph The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
In addition to her academic publications, Hazel is also Editorial Assistant for the popular language magazine, Babel, where she writes the regular feature ‘Language in the News’.
You can find out more about Hazel’s fascinating research here: https://hazelprice.wordpress.com
