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Dr. Hazel Price is a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Salford, School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies. She also holds a position as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield and is affiliated with the English Research Centre at Salford.
Her research focuses on language in use, with specializations in health communication, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, and stylistics. Dr. Price has conducted significant research on media representations of mental illness and the evolution of language used to discuss mental health. Her work demonstrates a consistent interest in how language shapes societal perceptions of important social issues.
Dr. Price has published extensively across multiple formats, with notable works including her 2022 monograph 'The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press' (Cambridge University Press), 'The Babel Lexicon of Language' (2022), and 'Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement' (2023). Her publication record shows a progressive development from technical linguistic analysis to more accessible resources for public engagement with language studies.
She actively engages with the public through multiple channels, serving as an Editorial Assistant for the language magazine Babel where she writes the 'Language in the News' feature, and as a book reviews editor for Language and Literature (SAGE). Her consultancy work extends her linguistic expertise to public, private, and third-sector organizations.
Dr. Price is available for PhD supervision on topics related to corpus linguistics, health communication, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, and applied linguistics, reflecting her interdisciplinary research interests and commitment to advancing linguistic scholarship.
