Representing Schizophrenia in the Media - A Corpus-Based Approach to Uk Press Coverage

Examining a 15 million-word corpus of articles by nine UK national newspapers over 15 years, Balfour draws on techniques from corpus linguistics & critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent & salient linguistic features used to influence & reflect attitudes towards schizophrenia.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Examining a 15 million-word corpus of articles by nine UK national newspapers over 15 years, Balfour draws on techniques from corpus linguistics & critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent & salient linguistic features used to influence & reflect attitudes towards schizophrenia.

Product details

• Authors: James Balfour, Balfour James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367560034
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56003-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Discourse Analysis, MEDICAL / Mental Health, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Mental health services, Communication Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Language: history & general works, Language teaching theory and methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Language: history and general works