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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-stigmatisation of schizophrenic disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions su

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    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    Publication Date: 8/26/2024
    ISBN13: 9780367560041, 978-0367560041
    ISBN10: 0367560046
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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-stigmatisation of schizophrenic disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions su

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