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48
Citations
18996
World Ranking
3043
National Ranking
517

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Paul Baker is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in the field of Health Professions. Their research spans several subfields, including Language and Linguistics, Pharmacy, General Health Professions, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Baker's work include:

  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Baker are:

  • Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008-2017, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Creating and analysing a multimodal corpus of news texts with Google Cloud Vision's automatic image tagger, 2023, Applied Corpus Linguistics

Baker frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Gavin Brookes (24 publications)
  • Tony McEnery (12 publications)
  • Rachelle Vessey (9 publications)
  • Luke Collins (7 publications)
  • Ruth Breeze (2 publications)

Baker has consistently published in multiple venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Applied Corpus Linguistics (4 publications)
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks (3 publications)
  • Text and Talk (2 publications)
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (2 publications)
  • Social Science & Medicine (1 publication)

Book publications by Baker include works mainly with Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, and Lancaster University. Notable books include:

  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, 2023
  • Obesity in the News, 2021
  • The Language of Violent Jihad, 2021
  • Analysing Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback, 2022
  • Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics, 2025
  • Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare, 2025
  • Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, 2023 (Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
  • Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press, 2021 (Lancaster University)

Baker holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

    Paul Baker

  • A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press

    Paul Baker;Costas Gabrielatos;Majid KhosraviNik;Michal Krzyzanowski

  • Fleeing, Sneaking, Flooding A Corpus Analysis of Discursive Constructions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2005

    Costas Gabrielatos;Paul Baker

  • Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics

    Paul Baker

  • Lexical Bundles in L1 and L2 Academic Writing.

    Yu-Hua Chen;Paul Baker

  • A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts.

    Paul Baker;Tony McEnery

  • A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics

    Paul Baker;Andrew Hardie;Tony McEnery

  • Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British Press

    Paul Baker;Costas Gabrielatos;Tony McEnery

  • Key Terms in Discourse Analysis

    Paul Baker;Sibonile Ellece

  • Public Discourses of Gay Men

    Paul Baker

  • Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word ‘Muslim’ in the British Press 1998–2009

    Paul Baker;Costas Gabrielatos;Tony McEnery

  • Using Corpora to Analyze Gender

    Paul Baker

  • Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality

    Paul Baker

  • Querying keywords : questions of difference, frequency and sense in keywords analysis.

    Paul Baker

  • Picking the right cherries? A comparison of corpus-based and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculinity:

    Paul Baker;Erez Levon

  • Acceptable bias? Using corpus linguistics methods with critical discourse analysis

    Paul Baker

  • Polari-- the lost language of gay men

    Paul Baker

  • Triangulating methodological approaches in corpus-linguistic research

    Paul Baker;Jesse Egbert

  • Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes

    Paul Baker;Costas Gabrielatos;Tony McEnery

  • Representations of Islam in British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers 1999–2005

    Paul Baker

  • Contemporary Corpus Linguistics

    Paul Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Michal Krzyzanowski
Michal Krzyzanowski Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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