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DESCRIPTION:This study investigates how schizophrenia is represented in t
 he British press from 2020-2024\, examining the left politically leaning
  newspaper The Guardian comparative to the right politically leaning new
 spaper The Times. Using purpose-built corpora and sub-corpora\, the proj
 ect triangulates corpus linguistic techniques (collocation\, keyword and
  concordance analyses) with corpus-informed Critical Discourse Analysis 
 to reveal patterns in language use related to schizophrenia that may not
  be realised as overt discrimination or stigmatising practice. The top s
 tatistically significant 25 collocations and 30 keywords lists were qual
 itatively coded\, with two lexical domains emerging – Medical language a
 nd Social actors. Detailed corpus-driven CDA of these findings revealed 
 prevalent framing of schizophrenia as a legitimate medical diagnosis in 
 both newspapers\, with stigma-challenging discourses more prevalent in T
 he Guardian (realised through clinical diagnostic framing (“diagnosed wi
 th [paranoid] schizophrenia”)\, person-first language encoding agency an
 d individuality (“a person with schizophrenia”) and acknowledgement of c
 o-morbidities (“schizophrenia and bipolar disorder”). Comparatively\, in
  The Times\, findings showed greater prevalence of stigma-reinforcing di
 scourses (realised through condition-first language encoding genericisat
 ion (“a schizophrenic [person]”)\, obsolete diagnostic terminology (“par
 anoid schizophrenia”)\, and naming associated with blame (“Sutcliffe [th
 e Yorkshire Ripper] was a paranoid schizophrenic”)). However\, both news
 papers showed instances of all aforementioned features\, indicating that
 \, whilst The Guardian showed greater indication of responsible\, clinic
 ally-grounded reporting\, the divide in representations of schizophrenia
  in left versus right politically leaning newspapers is not particularly
  marked. Furthermore\, both newspapers (though more frequently The Times
 ) constructed schizophrenia as associated with a male-centric violence r
 hetoric (“a schizophrenic man who stabbed his mother 33 times”)\, though
  medicalisation remained a more dominant discourse. Whilst these finding
 s indicate schizophrenia-related reporting may have improved and now not
  be as problematic\, negative and stigmatising as previous literature ha
 s found\, more can be still be done particularly surrounding encoding in
 dividual agency of people with schizophrenia and avoiding unnecessary as
 sociations with blame\, violence or a masculine rhetoric.
URL:https://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts80/public/events/1598
SUMMARY:Representing Schizophrenia in British News Media: A Corpus-Based 
 Critical Discourse Analysis
ORGANIZER:stuts80
LOCATION:stuts80 - S 78
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