Hazel Price

The Language of Mental Illness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781108845915
• ISBN-10: 1108845916
• Artikelnr.: 62952070

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.