http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse We apply corpus-based discourse analysis to discussions about vaccinations in the press, parliamentary debates and social media. We aim to inform public health campaigns through a better understanding of vaccine hesitancy. Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:06:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse/files/2021/05/cropped-Logo-PRINT-2-scaled-1-32x32.jpg http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse 32 32 188168945 http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse/2021/09/12/from-roast-dinners-to-seatbelts-metaphors-to-address-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-by-elena-semino/ Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:51:01 +0000 http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse/?p=567 Professor Sarah Gilbert, who led the team that developed the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine against Covid-19, has recently made this comment about different attitudes towards vaccines: I don’t understand anti-vaxxers. Why should anyone be ideologically opposed to a safe and cost-effective public health measure that saves millions of lives and stops people from having to live…

]]> 567 http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse/2021/01/17/hello-world/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:24:37 +0000 http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-discourse/?p=1 The Quo VaDis project applies the latest techniques in corpus-based discourse analysis to discussions about vaccinations in UK national press reports, UK Parliamentary debates, Twitter, Reddit, and Mumsnet. We aim to inform public health campaigns about vaccinations through a better understanding of pro- and anti-vaccination views.

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