The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguist. Price Paperback**

Name: The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguist. Price Paperback**
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The Language of Mental IllnessCorpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press\nAuthor(s): Hazel Price\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108994040, 978-1108994040\nSynopsis\nMental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental health has to date been relatively under-explored. Using methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this pioneering book is the first large-scale linguistic investigation of UK news reports on mental illness. Based on a purpose-built corpus of 45 million words of UK press reports on mental illness, it offers a range of analyses exploring language development across time, in addition to focusing on the differences between press representations of specific mental illnesses. The book provides linguisti.