Dratwa, Zackary Enström Wallqvister, Ellen
The highest Swedish football division, Allsvenskan, is not known for playing the best football or having the best players in the world on the pitch. However, Allsvenskan has one of the worlds’ best average audience rates and is well known globally for their large supporter culture. Thus, the topic of supporter culture and supporter related violence...
Posio, Emma Lindvall, Amanda
Murder is something that both horrifies and arouses interest in our society. The media is acontributing factor to the different portrayals of murderers, potentially affecting the public'sunderstanding of the crime and the perpetrators behind it. This study analyses the representation of female murderers in podcasts. The research questions are based...
te Meerman, Sanne Freedman, Justin E. Batstra, Laura
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Introduction The descriptive classification Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often mistaken for a disease entity that explains the causes of inattentive and hyperactive behaviors, rather than merely describing the existence of such behaviors. The present study examines discourse on ADHD to analyze how authors passively and activel...
Creech, Brian Maddox, Jessica
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Journalism (London, England)
This article considers how reporting about work during the COVID-19 pandemic operated as a field of discourse that challenged the ideological workings of neoliberalism. By documenting the risks and stresses workers of all classes faced during the first year of the pandemic, the reporting began to question neoliberal capitalism as socially unsustain...
Kania, Ursula
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Now mostly known as “COVID-19” (or simply “Covid”), early discourse around the pandemic was characterized by a particularly large variation in naming choices (ranging from “new coronavirus” and “new respiratory disease” to “killer bug” and the racist term “Chinese virus”). The current study is situated within corpus-assisted discourse studies and a...
Tian, Xujun Li, Xiaoqian
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Frontiers in Psychology
This study investigates the changes in China’s diplomacy in the past seven decades based on the diachronic corpus of Chinese diplomatic discourse from 1949 to 2018 using corpus based critical discourse analysis theoretical insights. The study examines the targeted keywords used in the seven periods of Chinese diplomatic discourse and their signific...
Wang, Hong Ge, Yunfeng
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Frontiers in Psychology
The outbreak of COVID-19 has imposed a great threat both to people’s health and to social relations. By following the theoretical constructions of critical genre analysis and critical discourse analysis and drawing on the 35 press conferences on the COVID-19 outbreak in China, this paper explores how the discourse of press conferences is used by th...
Karaminis, Themis Gabrielatos, Costas Maden-Weinberger, Ursula Beattie, Geoffrey
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Any thriving society must recognise, accept and celebrate all of its diverse talent. But how accepting is British society towards autism and autistic people? This research addressed this question through the lens of the press since the press both reflects and helps shape public attitudes towards various social categories. We used specialised 'corpu...
Adam, Simon Jiang, Cindy Mikhail, Marina Juergensen, Linda
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Nursing inquiry
By examining an exemplar sample of mental health nursing educational policies and related legislation, in this article, we trace the discursive production of madness as an "othered" identity category. We engage in a critical discourse analysis of mental health nursing education in Canada, drawing on provincial and federal policies and legislation a...
C Harrington, Candace Dean-Witt, Cheryl Z Cacchione, Pamela
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Journal of women & aging
In 2021, 11.3 million unpaid caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease/Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) provided 16 billion hours of unpaid caregiving worth $271.6 billion. This study aimed to fully capture the contextual complexities of the caregiving role acquisition articulated by female family caregivers of those with AD...