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Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes - A Qualitative Analysis (Hardcover)
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Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes - A Qualitative Analysis (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
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Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world
chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement that suicide
notes are social texts, there has been no book which analyzes
suicide notes as discursive texts and no attempt at a qualitative
discourse analysis of them. Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes
redresses this gap in the literature. Focussing on men and
masculinity and anchored in qualitative discourse analysis, Dariusz
Galasinski responds to the need for a more thorough understanding
of suicidal behaviour. Culturally, men have been posited to be
'masters of the universe' and yet some choose to end their lives.
This book takes a qualitative approach to data gathered from the
Polish Corpus of Suicide Notes, a unique repository of over 600
suicide notes, to explore discourse from and about men at the most
traumatic juncture of their lives. Discussing how men construct
suicide notes and the ways in which they position their
relationships and identities within them, Discourses of Men's
Suicide Notes seeks to understand what these notes mean and what
significance and power they are invested with.
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