Representing Schizophrenia in the Media by James Balfour - 9780367560041

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Representing Schizophrenia in the MediaA Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage\nAuthor(s): James Balfour\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367560041, 978-0367560041\nSynopsis\nThis 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:\n\nEvaluates the extent to which media representations are accurate and the extent to which they are potentially helpful or harmful towards people living with schizophrenia; \n\nEmploys a bottom-up approach guided by l.