The Language of Mental Illness Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press
Book contents
- The Language of Mental Illness
- The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series
- The Language of Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Language of Mental Illness
- 3 Analytical Method 1
- 4 Analytical Method 2
- 5 Corpus Construction
- 6 The Shifting Meaning of Mental Health and Mental Illness
- 7 Named, Labelled and Referred to: People with Mental Illness in the MI 1984–2014 Corpus
- 8 ‘Suffering’ Illnesses and ‘Experiencing’ Symptoms
- 9 Do Newspaper Reports Accurately Represent the Symptoms of Mental Illness?
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
10 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
Book contents
- The Language of Mental Illness
- The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series
- The Language of Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Language of Mental Illness
- 3 Analytical Method 1
- 4 Analytical Method 2
- 5 Corpus Construction
- 6 The Shifting Meaning of Mental Health and Mental Illness
- 7 Named, Labelled and Referred to: People with Mental Illness in the MI 1984–2014 Corpus
- 8 ‘Suffering’ Illnesses and ‘Experiencing’ Symptoms
- 9 Do Newspaper Reports Accurately Represent the Symptoms of Mental Illness?
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a discussion of the reported findings. The research questions are revisited and caveats to the research are discussed. I provide suggestions for how research into the language of mental illness may be developed in future studies. I also discuss the practical implications of the research reported in the book.
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- The Language of Mental IllnessCorpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press, pp. 272 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022