The Language of Mental Illness Book contents
- The Language of Mental Illness
- The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series
- The Language of Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Language of Mental Illness
- 3 Analytical Method 1
- 4 Analytical Method 2
- 5 Corpus Construction
- 6 The Shifting Meaning of Mental Health and Mental Illness
- 7 Named, Labelled and Referred to: People with Mental Illness in the MI 1984–2014 Corpus
- 8 ‘Suffering’ Illnesses and ‘Experiencing’ Symptoms
- 9 Do Newspaper Reports Accurately Represent the Symptoms of Mental Illness?
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
3 - Analytical Method 1
Corpus Linguistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- The Language of Mental Illness
- The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series
- The Language of Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Language of Mental Illness
- 3 Analytical Method 1
- 4 Analytical Method 2
- 5 Corpus Construction
- 6 The Shifting Meaning of Mental Health and Mental Illness
- 7 Named, Labelled and Referred to: People with Mental Illness in the MI 1984–2014 Corpus
- 8 ‘Suffering’ Illnesses and ‘Experiencing’ Symptoms
- 9 Do Newspaper Reports Accurately Represent the Symptoms of Mental Illness?
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 provides a brief overview of the particular approach to corpus linguistics adopted in this book: namely, corpus linguistics as a method (as opposed to corpus linguistics as a theory) (McEnery & Hardy, 2012; Tognini-Bonelli, 2001). The specific corpus linguistic analytical methods used, such as collocation and keyness analysis, and the statistical tests and cut-offs associated with each analysis type are detailed. Using data from the MI 1984–2014 Corpus (specifically the data collected during a pilot study and an illness-specific sample of the data), each analytical method used is exemplified. The utility of each analysis type for analysing ideology in texts is also discussed.
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- The Language of Mental IllnessCorpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press, pp. 47 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022