Wykluczeni wśród wykluczonych. Obraz chorych psychicznie w dyskursie publicznym
The excluded among the excluded. The image of the mentally ill in public discourse

Author(s): Dorota Szagun
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: discourse; social exclusion; linguistic discourse analysis; public communication
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the issue of social exclusion of people with mental illnesses present in public discourse, especially in the media. The linguistic analysis of discourse shows that the exclusion occurs through culturally-established linguistic forms and structures, the use of speaking mechanisms from the position of medical and legal institutional authority, in particular the portraying of persons with mental illnesses in a criminal context (equating the offender with a mental illness) or as objects of internment. The aim of the article is to indicate the permanent and socially undesirable mechanisms of exclusion of people with mental illnesses present in public discourse, but also to emphasize changes and actions towards the inclusion of sick people in social reality. The restoration of people with mental illnesses to society is expressed in a new language (the so-called ethical and inclusive speaking) and genre (coming out).

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