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
2 - The Language of Mental Illness
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 2 provides a review of the existing literature on the representation of, and attitudes towards, mental illness in a variety of text types (e.g. online data, newspaper data, spoken data) and across a range of analytical disciplines. In addition to exploring research on the representation of mental illness in these different data types and disciplines, the theoretical position of Social Constructionism (particularly in reference to CDA) is discussed.
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- The Language of Mental IllnessCorpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press, pp. 14 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022