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The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press (2022)
Book
Price, H. (2022). The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental health has to date been relatively under-explored. Using methods... Read More about The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press.

Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’ (2019)
Journal Article
Price, H., & Wilson, J. (2019). Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’. Language and Literature, 28(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019827074

‘Emotional Weather Report’ is a song by Tom Waits from his 1975 album, Nighthawks at the Diner. ‘Nighthawk’ is a US colloquial term popularised by its use in the title of Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting ‘Nighthawks’, which depicts a nocturnal scene in... Read More about Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’.

Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, J., & Price, H. (2018). Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics. Journal of Politeness Research, 14(1), 63-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2017-0056

In this article, we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a... Read More about Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics.