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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 used by journalists to influence and reflect
broader public attitudes towards people with schizophrenia. In
doing so this book: Evaluates the extent to which media
representations are accurate and the extent to which they are
potentially helpful or harmful towards people living with
schizophrenia; Employs a bottom-up approach guided by linguistic
patterns, such as collocates and keywords, identified by corpus
software; Contributes to the de-stigmatization of schizophrenic
disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions
surrounding it; Applies a mixed-methods approach in order to expose
attitudes and beliefs found 'between the lines' - values and
assumptions which are often implicit in the way language is used
and therefore not visible to the naked eye. The findings of this
monograph will be relevant to advanced students and researchers of
health communication, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics
and will also carry importance for journalists and mental health
practitioners.
Originally published in 1908, this book presents the content of the
Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture for that year, which was delivered
by former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour at Newnham College,
Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in
perspectives on the nature of decadence and historical progress.
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