Abstract
Drug addiction causes millions of deaths worldwide each year. In fact, addiction to drugs has become a growing concern globally. The perils of addiction go beyond the individual, deeply impacting families and communities. This study examines how drug addiction is represented in literature, specifically in Nico Walker’s novel Cherry. It aims to analyse the key language patterns in the data that show the perils of drug addiction. This study analyses the novel by applying corpus stylistics framework based on Mahlberg and McIntyre (2011) has been followed to identify the prominent linguistic patterns in the data. Corpus stylistics combines both quantitative analysis, which focuses on collocations, word frequencies, and concordances. Followed by a qualitative analysis that pays attention to lexical choices and semantic prosodies that appear in the corpus findings. The approach gives unique insights that make the analysis systematic and objective. The main finding is that the choice of vocabulary, word frequencies, and collocations related to drug addiction shows the significant role of language in shaping the dangers and negative effects of addiction.
https://ror.org/007f1da21 
