Publications

Demjén, Z., Brezina, V., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Hardaker, C., Gleave, R. and Semino, E. (2025) ‘I am still unsure…’Ìý– Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet, Applied Corpus Linguistics.

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Flusberg, S. J., Mackey, A., & Semino, E. (2024). Seatbelts and raincoats, or banks and castles: Investigating the impact of vaccine metaphors. PLOS ONE, 19(1), e0294739. .

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Hardaker, C., Deignan, A., Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Sanderson, C., Gatherer, D. (2023). The Victorian anti-vaccination discourse corpus (VicVaDis): construction and exploration. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

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Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Deignan, A., Demjen, Z., Hardaker, C., & Mackey, A. (2023). Narratives, information and manifestations of resistance to persuasion in online discussions of HPV vaccination. Health Communication.Ìý.

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Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., & Hardaker, C. (2023). Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability. Discourse & Society, 0(0). .

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Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Gatherer, D., Hardaker, C., & Semino, E. (2022). ‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’–A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum. Discourse, Context & Media, 48, 100624. .

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Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Gleave, R. and Mackey, A. (2025) ‘It’s a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic, Vaccine X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100620

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Demjén, Z., Semino, E. and Gleave, R. (2025) A jab is not a vaccine; It’s a shot,ÌýPublic Health, 245, 105815.Ìý

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Semino, E., Gatherer, D., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Deignan, A. and Hardaker, C. (2025) Anti-Vaccination Discourse in Victorian England: Key semantic domains and parallels with present-day anti-vaccination arguments. In Brookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, T. and Putland. E. (eds) Historical Medical Discourse. Routledge.

Semino, E. (2025) Better communication about vaccines could tackle scepticism. The BMJ;