| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Corpus and discourse |
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Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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| Contents |
Mental health, discourse and corpus linguistics -- Anorexia, depression and diabulimia: contested conditions and online support -- Corpora and methods of analysis -- Anorexia online: pro-recovery in the ED community -- Being 'sick of it': depression, medication and self-injurious behaviour -- Diabulimia: discourses of chronic illness and mental distress -- Discussion: telling the right story; being the right self -- Beyond the forum: implications and reflections |
| Summary |
"Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication, Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health provides insights into the linguistic practices of members of three online support communities as they describe their experiences of living with and managing different mental health problems, including anorexia nervosa, depression and diabulimia. In examining contemporary health communication data, the book combines quantitative corpus linguistic methods with qualitative discourse analysis that draws upon recent theoretical insights from critical health sociology. Using this mixed-methods approach, the analysis identifies patterns and consistencies in the language used by people experiencing psychological distress and their role in realising varying representations of mental illness, diagnosis and treatment. Far from being neutral accounts of suffering and treating illness, corpus analysis illustrates that these interactions are suffused with moral and ideological tensions sufferers seek to collectively negotiate responsibility for the onset and treatment of recalcitrant mental health problems. Integrating corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis and health sociology, this book showcases the capacity of linguistic analysis for understanding mental health discourse as well as critically exploring the potential of corpus linguistics to offer an evidence-based approach to health communication research"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2020) |
| Subject |
Mentally ill -- Language.
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Depressed persons -- Language
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Eating disorders -- Patients -- Language
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Discourse analysis.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics
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psycholinguistics.
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Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis
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Mentally ill -- Language
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Psycholinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brookes, Gavin (Linguist), author.
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| LC no. |
2020005658 |
| ISBN |
9781350059191 |
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1350059196 |
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1350059188 |
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9781350059184 |
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9781350059207 |
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135005920X |
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