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
9 - Do Newspaper Reports Accurately Represent the Symptoms of Mental Illness?
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 9 investigates if and how the symptoms of mental illness are present in the MI 1984–2014 Corpus by exploring the symptoms of each disorder type covered by the corpus. Specifically, using keyword and key semantic domain analysis, I explore whether the symptoms of mental illnesses are accurately represented in news articles on mental illness. In addition to corpus tools, I also qualitatively analyse the most prototypical text for each illness subcorpus (i.e. the text that contains the most frequent features of the illness subcorpus overall) to explore whether the keyness findings are also a feature of whole texts.
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- The Language of Mental IllnessCorpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press, pp. 226 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022