Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press
Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x19001120
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2021-02-01
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2.5
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Harvey, Kevin
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作者：
Bailey, Annika;Dening, Tom;Harvey, Kevin
媒体对痴呆症的报道可以影响公众和专业人士对该综合征的态度，塑造社会对痴呆症的认识，并影响痴呆症患者的护理方式。本文报告了对2012-2017年英国媒体上发表的关于痴呆症的新闻文章的研究。该分析结合了语料库语言学的工具，一种定量调查大量电子语言数据的方法，以及批判性话语分析的定性观点，旨在揭示主导话语和意识形态。从这一分析中出现的最突出的论述是从生物医学角度描述痴呆症，特别关注痴呆症的病理过程以及药物治疗和研究。与此话语相关的关键词被详细询问，阐明了通过痴呆症和痴呆症患者的病理描述的语言策略。这项研究强调了这种类型的报告给痴呆症患者及其家人带来的挑战，并指出了用话语方法理解痴呆症的社会观念的相关性。
Media coverage of dementia can influence public and professional attitudes towards the syndrome, shaping societal knowledge of dementia and impacting how people with dementia are cared for. This paper reports on a study of news articles about dementia published in the British press in the years 2012-2017. The analysis combines the tools of corpus linguistics, a methodology for quantitatively surveying a vast amount of electronic linguistic data, with the qualitative perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis, which seeks to uncover dominant discourses and ideologies. The most salient discourse that emerged from this analysis was the portrayal of dementia in biomedical terms, with a particular focus on the pathological processes of dementia, and pharmaceutical treatments and research. Keywords relating to this discourse are interrogated in detail, illuminating the linguistic strategies through which the pathology of dementia and people with dementia are depicted. This study highlights the challenges that this type of reporting presents to people living with dementia and their families, and points to the relevance of a discursive approach to understanding societal perceptions of dementia.