Academic publications
Forthcoming chapters (in press)
Putland, E. and Brookes, G. ‘Dementia stigma: From theorisation to language use’, in Handbook of Language and Mental Health. Routledge.
Putland, E. and Brookes, G. ‘News media representations of health and illness’, in The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication. London: Routledge.
Putland, E., Harvey, K. and Brookes, G. ‘What is good care, and who is it good for?: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites’, in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies. Edward Elgar.
Putland, E., Brookes, G. and Harvey, K. ‘Representations of dementia in public discourse’, in Handbook on Dementia and Society.
2025
Putland, E., Chikodzore-Paterson, C. and Brookes, G. (2025). ‘We no longer recognized her as a human being’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-generated character descriptions of men and women with dementia. Journal of Language and Discrimination [Special Issue] 9(2): 183-208. https://doi.org/10.3138/jld-2025-1002.
Putland, E. and Brookes, G. ‘Dementia, death and discourse’, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death. London: Bloomsbury.
Putland, E. (2025). Navigating dementia and society: Exploring how people affected by dementia negotiate and reshape popular discourses. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/navigating-dementia-and-society-9781350428867/ [Available as open access on November 13th]
2024
Putland, E. and Brookes, G. (2024). ‘Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature’, Visual Communication 0(0): https://doi.org/10.1177/14703572241245587
Putland, E. and Brookes, G. 2024. ‘Dementia stigma: representation and language use’, Journal of Language and Aging Research, 2(1): pp.5–46. doi: 10.15460/jlar.2024.2.1.1266. Also view at: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/jlar/article/view/1266/396.
2023
Putland, E., Chikodzore-Paterson, C. and Brookes, G. 2023. ‘Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”’, Social Semiotics, 35(2): 228-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2023.2290555.
Brookes, G. (2023). ‘Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids’, Metaphor and Symbol, 38(3): pp. 213-230, doi: 10.1080/10926488.2022.2142472
2022
Brookes, G., Atkins, S. and Harvey, K. (2022). ‘Corpus linguistics and health communication: using corpora to examine the representation of health and illness’. In: A. O’Keeffe and M. McCarthy (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (2nd edition). London: Routledge, pp. 615-628.
Putland E. (2022). ‘The (in)accuracies of floating leaves: How people with varying experiences of dementia differently position the same visual metaphor’, Dementia, 21(5): pp.1-17. doi:10.1177/14713012211072507
2021
Brookes, G., Putland, E. and Harvey, K. (2021). ‘Multimodality: Examining Visual Representations of Dementia in Public Health Discourse’. In G. Brookes and D. Hunt (eds.) Analysing Health Communication. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 241-269.
Wider publications by our team
Articles and chapters
Brookes, G., Harvey, K., Chadborn, N. and Dening, T. (2018). ‘“Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press’, Social Semiotics, 28(3): pp.371-395.
Harvey, K. and Brookes, G. (2019). ‘Looking through dementia: what do commercial stock images tell us about aging and cognitive decline?’ Qualitative Health Research, 29(7), 987-1003.
Books
Brookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, A. and Putland, E. (eds.) (2025). Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Historical-Medical-Discourse-Corpus-Linguistic-Perspectives/Brookes-Curry-McEnery-Putland/p/book/9781032739755 [publication date: 26 November 2025]
Semino, E., Baker, P., Brookes, G., Collins, L. and McEnery, A. (2025). Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/applying-corpus-linguistics-to-illness-and-healthcare/541C606605FB876FADD799CAFBD18BEC [open access]
Other
Putland, E. (2022). Representing dementia: A qualitative analysis of how people affected by dementia situate themselves in relation to different dementia discourses. PhD thesis. University of Nottingham, UK. https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/69191
Putland, E. (2022). Representing dementia: Insights from people affected by dementia. A self-published PhD summary document for study participants and other interested parties.