Kevin Harvey

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• kevin.harvey@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

BA (Loughborough) MA, PhD (Nottingham) Areas of expertise - sociolinguistics; discourse and corpus linguistics; healthcare communication.

Research Summary

My principal research interests lie in the field of applied sociolinguistics, multi-modal discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Broadly, I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches to… read more

Recent Publications

• BROWN, B., CRAWFORD, P. AND HARVEY, K., 2014. Corpus linguistics and evidence based communication. In: Routledge Handbook of Health Communication, London: Routledge. Routledge Handbook of Health Communication. Routledge. (In Press.)
• HARVEY, K. and KOTEYKO, N., 2013. Exploring health communication: language in action Routledge.
• HARVEY, K., 2013. Investigating adolescent health communication: a corpus linguistics approach Bloomsbury. (In Press.)
• HARVEY, K., MULLANY, L. AND LOCHER, M., 2013. 'Can I be at risk of getting AIDS?' A linguistic analysis of two Internet advice columns on sexual health Linguistics Online. (In Press.)

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Current Research

My principal research interests lie in the field of applied sociolinguistics, multi-modal discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Broadly, I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches to professional communication, with a special emphasis on health communication. My present research, for example, focuses on multi-modal approaches to medical discourse. One strand of this health communication research involves a corpus linguistic exploration of electronic health messages: an examination of the health concerns communicated by contributors to medical professionals online. The research emphasis is on how these concerns are communicated to health professionals and what, in turn, their linguistic encoding tells us about individuals' attitudes towards health and illness. For a brief overview of the findings, please see my broadcast 'The Word Counter' on You Tube. For a more detailed and extensive account of this research, please see my forthcoming (2013) book Adolescent Health Communication: A Corpus and Discourse Approach (Bloomsbury).

Another strand of my research involves examining the phenomenon of medicalisation (the process whereby non-diseases are defined as diseases). Specifically, this area of my research uses critical multi-modal discourse to investigate the ways in which pharmaceutical companies and advertisers promote lifestyle drugs for benign conditions.

Recent publications that have appeared in 2012/13 include the book Exploring Health Communication Routledge (with Nelya Koteyko), and journal articles examining the discursive representation of pyschological distress online. Please click on the above tab for further details of all of my other publications and conference papers. I am also an active member of the Health Language Research Group (HLRG), an interdisciplinary body of health researchers and practitioners. For further information concerning the work of the HLRG, please visit the website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/research/HLRG/

Future Research

I am currently researching in the area of pharmaceutical advertising and multi-modal discourse analysis.

• BROWN, B., CRAWFORD, P. AND HARVEY, K., 2014. Corpus linguistics and evidence based communication. In: Routledge Handbook of Health Communication, London: Routledge. Routledge Handbook of Health Communication. Routledge. (In Press.)
• HARVEY, K. and KOTEYKO, N., 2013. Exploring health communication: language in action Routledge.
• HARVEY, K., 2013. Investigating adolescent health communication: a corpus linguistics approach Bloomsbury. (In Press.)
• HARVEY, K., MULLANY, L. AND LOCHER, M., 2013. 'Can I be at risk of getting AIDS?' A linguistic analysis of two Internet advice columns on sexual health Linguistics Online. (In Press.)
• HARVEY, K., 2013. Medicalisation, pharmaceutical promotion and the internet: A critical multimodal discourse analysis of hair loss websites Social Semiotics. (In Press.)
• 2013. The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care Qualitative Health Research.
• HARVEY, K. and BROWN, B., 2012. Health communication and psychological distress: exploring the language of self-harm Canadian Modern Language Review. 68(3), 316-340
• HARVEY, K., 2012. Disclosures of depression: using corpus linguistics methods to interrogate young people’s online health concerns International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 17(3), 349-379
• HARVEY, KEVIN & ADOLPHS, SVENJA, 2011. Discourse and Healthcare. In: HANDFORD, MICHEAL AND GEE, JAMES PAUL, ed., Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis Routledge.
• HARVEY, K., 2011. Review of Eric Firgnal's 'The Language of Outsourced Call Centres: A Corpus-Based Study. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 15(4), 528-532
• HUNT, DANIEL, & HARVEY, KEVIN, 2010. Grammar and Doctor–Patient Communication. In: CAROL A. CHAPELLE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics Blackwell Publishing.
• HARVEY, K., 2009. Electronic Health Discourse. In: CUMMINGS, L., ed., The Pragmatics Encyclopedia Routledge.
• ATKINS, S and & HARVEY, K., 2009. How to use corpus linguistics in the study of health communication. In: O'KEEFE, A and & MCCARTHY, M., eds., The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics Routledge.
• HARVEY, K., 2009. Young people’s views on depression/mental health: A linguistic analysis of emails to the Teenage Health Freak website In: Managing Child & Adolescent Mental Health in Primary Care Symposium, Imperial College, London, 26 March 2009..
• HARVEY, K, CHURCHILL, D, CRAWFORD, P, BROWN, B, MULLANY, L, MACFARLANE, A and & MCPHERSON, A., 2008. Health communication and adolescents: What do their emails tell us? Family Practice. 25(4), 304-311
• HARVEY, K., 2008. 'Is the aids virus difficult to catch?': A linguistic analysis of an internet health advice column In: Researching Adolescent Health, 2nd Biennial Conference, London, UK, 23rd October 2008.
• GRAY, N, HARVEY, K, MCPHERSON, A and & MACFARLANE, A., 2008. 'Medicine dilemmas in adolescents' email messages'. The International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 1, 34-35
• GRAY, N, HARVEY, K, MACFARLANE, A and & MCPHERSON, A., 2008. ''Help!' Adolescent health language in email messages' Journal of Adolescent Health. 42, 5-6
• HARVEY, K., 2008. 'Review of 'Taboo and the Censoring of Language' by Keith Allan & Kate Burridge' Journal of Politeness Research. 4(1), 139-144
• HARVEY, K, BROWN, B, CRAWFORD, P and & CANDLIN, C., 2008. 'Elicitation hooks': A discourse analysis of chaplain-interaction in Pastoral and Spiritual Care The Journal of Pastoral Care & Counselling. 62(1-2), 43-61
• ADOLPHS, S, ATKINS, S and HARVEY, K., 2007. Caught between professional requirements and interpersonal needs: vague language in healthcare contexts. In: CUTTING, J., ed., Vague Language Explored Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
• HARVEY, K.J, BROWN, B., MACFARLANE, A. and MCPHERSON, A., 2007. 'Am I Normal?' Teenagers, Sexual Health and the Internet Social Science and Medicine. 65, 771-781
• HARVEY, K.J. and ADOLPHS, S., 2006. 'Am I normal' Teenagers, Sexual Health and the Internet. In: International Conference of Language and Social Psychology.
• HARVEY, K.J and CRAWFORD, P., 2006. Exploring the Health Language of Adolescents In: National Conference of Research into Adolescent Health in Primary and Community Care.
• HARVEY, K.J. and ATKINS, S., 2006. Caught Between Professional Requirements and Interpersonal Needs:Vague Language in Healthcare Contexts In: Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference:Communication, Medicine & Ethics.
• HARVEY, K.J. and ADOLPHS, S., 2005. Communicating Medical Concerns: A Corpus Analysis of Adolescent Health Emails. In: Annual Meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics.
• HARVEY, K.J., 2003. No Laughing Matter: How the Tabloids Textualised Racism during 'Euro 96 Working with English Medieval & Modern Language, Literature and Drama. 1, 41-55