The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press

ISBN-13: 9781108994040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 350 str.

Hazel (University of Huddersfield) Price

Opis

Based on a 45-million-word corpus, this book explores how public perceptions of mental health and illness have changed over time.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The language of mental illness; 3. Analytical methods; 4. Corpus linguistics; 5. Analytical methods; 6. Critical discourse analysis; 7. Corpus construction; 8. The shifting meaning of mental health and mental illness; 9. Named, labelled and referred to: people with mental illnesses in the MI 1984-2014 corpus; 10. 'Suffering' illnesses and 'experiencing' symptoms: ways of talking about having mental illness; 11. Do newspaper reports accurately represent the symptoms of mental illness?; 12. Concluson.