International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
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![Abstract: Debates around the efficacy and dangers of vaccination have taken on critical importance with the Covid pandemic and WHO naming vaccine hesitancy as a major global health threat. We explore how writers use two types of blog, academic and journalistic, to promote key public health messages around the effectiveness and necessity of Covid-19 vaccinations to a broad, heterogeneous audience. Examining 120 Covid-19 vaccination themed posts from reputable news and academic blog sites, we compare the different ways writers present a stance and take a position towards vaccines and vaccinations in these different interactional contexts. Findings show that both types of bloggers are clearly aware of the need to convey a stance towards their topic and audiences feel entitled to position themselves in relation to vaccination issues, but with different emphases. The study has important implications for how healthcare information is disseminated and persuasion accomplished […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIeUAxtXMAAA5ZP.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Abstract: Debates around the efficacy and dangers of vaccination have taken on critical importance with the Covid pandemic and WHO naming vaccine hesitancy as a major global health threat. We explore how writers use two types of blog, academic and journalistic, to promote key public health messages around the effectiveness and necessity of Covid-19 vaccinations to a broad, heterogeneous audience. Examining 120 Covid-19 vaccination themed posts from reputable news and academic blog sites, we compare the different ways writers present a stance and take a position towards vaccines and vaccinations in these different interactional contexts. Findings show that both types of bloggers are clearly aware of the need to convey a stance towards their topic and audiences feel entitled to position themselves in relation to vaccination issues, but with different emphases. The study has important implications for how healthcare information is disseminated and persuasion accomplished […]
ALT Abstract of the paper "Modeling the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study" by Xu et al., published online-first in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics on 29 January 2024.
ALT Abstract of the article "Political framing of Covid-19: From metaphor to moral panic" by Ariana N Mohammadi, published in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
ALT Screenshot showing the abstract for the paper "Advancing Sino-Philippine linguistics and sociolinguistics using the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp): A multilingual, POS-tagged, and audio-textual databank" by Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, published in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
ALT Screenshot showing the abstract of the paper "Keywords of the manosphere" by Mark McGlashan and Alexandra Krendel, published in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
ALT Screenshot showing the abstract of the paper "Association measures for collocation extraction: Automatic evaluation on a large-scale corpus" by Qi Su, Chen Gu, & Pengyuan Liu, published in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
