Main description:

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-stigmatization of schizophrenic disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions surrounding it

Applies a mixed-methods approach in order to expose attitudes and beliefs found 'between the lines' - values and assumptions which are often implicit in the way language is used and therefore not visible to the naked eye
The findings of this monograph will be relevant to advanced students and researchers of health communication, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics and will also carry importance for journalists and mental health practitioners

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Representing schizophrenia in the corpus; 3. Representing schizophrenia in different newspapers; 4. Representing schizophrenia over time; 5. Representing schizophrenia in metaphors; 6. Representing schizophrenia in terms of horror; 7. Representing schizophrenia in terms of blame; 8. Conclusion; 9. Index