The Language of Mental Illness Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press
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
5 - Corpus Construction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
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
Summary
Chapter 5 describes the process of constructing the MI 1984–2014 Corpus, from compiling the sampling frame (e.g. search terms, dates covered) to the compilation procedure for the illness and year subcorpora. In particular, a detailed discussion of the interpretative status of search terms is provided. Practical issues related to compiling corpora such as cleaning the data are discussed. Furthermore, the problems that the interdisciplinary nature of corpus construction poses for the researcher are outlined.
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- The Language of Mental IllnessCorpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press, pp. 87 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022