Gender and the Language of Illness

by Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale

Acknowledgements Gender and the Language of Illness Methods for Investigating Gender and Language Men's Traditional Discourse of Distancing and Avoidance A Feminine Discourse of Transformation and Modality Emotional Socio-Economic Classification, Age and Gender Experience of Gender, Social Class and Age Illness Type and Gender Conclusion Appendix 1 - Men's Key Concepts (full matched sample) Appendix 2 - Women's Key Concepts (full matched sample) Appendix 3 - Significance levels for log likelihood test Appendix 4 - Demographic Sample of the British National Corpus References Index

247 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 7, 2010