The Language of Mental Illness - Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how the UK press report on mental health and illness, one of the key health topics in today's society. It is a vital resource for all researchers working in health communication and the health humanities.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The language of mental illness; 3. Analytical methods; 4. Corpus linguistics; 5. Analytical methods; 6. Critical discourse analysis; 7. Corpus construction; 8. The shifting meaning of mental health and mental illness; 9. Named, labelled and referred to: people with mental illnesses in the MI 1984-2014 corpus; 10. 'Suffering' illnesses and 'experiencing' symptoms: ways of talking about having mental illness; 11. Do newspaper reports accurately represent the symptoms of mental illness?; 12. Concluson.

About the author

Hazel Price is an Academic Fellow in English Language at the University of Salford, UK. In 2019, she won the PALA Prize for best article published in Language and Literature by a newcomer to the field. Recent publications include the co-edited Applying Linguistics (Routledge 2018) and the co-authored Babel Lexicon of Language (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Summary

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how the UK press report on mental health and illness, one of the key health topics in today's society. It is a vital resource for all researchers working in health communication and the health humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Hazel Price, Hazel (University of Huddersfield) Price
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781108845915
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84591-5
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Mental health services, Historical & comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc