1st Edition
Representing Schizophrenia in the Media A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage
By James Balfour
Copyright 2023
218 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book presents a critical analysis of ways in which schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia are represented in the press. Interrogating a 15-million-word corpus of news articles published by nine UK national newspapers over a 15-year period, the author draws on techniques from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent and salient linguistic features... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. Representing schizophrenia in the corpus; 3. Representing schizophrenia in different newspapers; 4. Representing schizophrenia over time; 5. Representing schizophrenia in metaphors; 6. Representing schizophrenia in terms of horror; 7. Representing schizophrenia in terms of blame; 8. Conclusion; 9. Index
Biography
James Balfour is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. He is currently interested in public discourses around mental health, in particular how we use language to understand people who experience psychosis. In his research he promotes language which is accurate and tolerant.
