Crazy Mad Nutters: The Language of Mental Health
Crazy Mad Nutters: The Language of Mental Health
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疯狂的疯子：心理健康的语言
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2016
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Kristy Hollingshead
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Jena D. Hwang;Kristy Hollingshead
许多患有精神疾病的人面临着整个社会因恐惧和误解而长期存在的耻辱所带来的挑战。这种针对心理健康状况的社会耻辱存在于日常语言中。在这项研究中，我们选取了一组 14 个可能会侮辱心理健康的单词，并将 Twitter 作为当代话语的近似样本。注释显示这些词具有不同的含义，从表达到污名再到临床。我们使用这些词义注释来提取一组具有心理健康意识的 Twitter 用户，并将他们的语言使用与年龄和性别匹配的用户组进行比较，发现污名含义频率的差异以及贬义含义目标的变化。这样的分析可能为开发一种工具迈出了第一步，该工具有可能帮助日常生活中的人们提高对自己的污名化语言的认识，并衡量反污名化运动改变我们话语的有效性。
Many people with mental illnesses face challenges posed by stigma perpetuated by fear and misconception in society at large. This societal stigma against mental health conditions is present in everyday language. In this study we take a set of 14 words with the potential to stigmatize mental health and sample Twitter as an approximation of contemporary discourse. Annotation reveals that these words are used with different senses, from expressive to stigmatizing to clinical.We use these wordsense annotations to extract a set of mental health–aware Twitter users, and compare their language use to that of an ageand gendermatched comparison set of users, discovering a difference in frequency of stigmatizing senses as well as a change in the target of pejorative senses. Such analysis may provide a first step towards a tool with the potential to help everyday people to increase awareness of their own stigmatizing language, and to measure the effectiveness of anti-stigma campaigns to change our discourse.