Representing Schizophrenia in the Media: A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage

ISBN-13: 9780367560034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

James Balfour

Opis

Examining a 15 million-word corpus of articles by nine UK national newspapers over 15 years, Balfour draws on techniques from corpus linguistics & critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent & salient linguistic features used to influence & reflect attitudes towards schizophrenia.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Representing schizophrenia in the corpus; 3. Representing schizophrenia in different newspapers; 4. Representing schizophrenia over time; 5. Representing schizophrenia in metaphors; 6. Representing schizophrenia in terms of horror; 7. Representing schizophrenia in terms of blame; 8. Conclusion; 9. Index

O autorze

James Balfour is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. He is currently interested in public discourses around mental health, in particular how we use language to understand people who experience psychosis. In his research he promotes language which is accurate and tolerant.