Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: HEALTH being defined as 'the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit' goes far beyond the field of biology and it is the subject of numerous multidisciplinary studies.HEALTH is also related to social medical care and during the world spread pandemic HEALTH has acquired specific significance as a great number of people faced some health problems because of Covid.The article is devoted to the study of HEALTH presentation in the media, in The Guardian articles in particular.The first stage of the research concentrated on the associative experiment with the stimulus word HEALTH.Students of different majors (medicine, technology and linguistics) were asked to share their associations with HEALTH.The most frequent associations constituted the basics for the second stage of the research which is based on the corpus analysis in order to unveil what associative words with HEALTH are presented in media texts.Sketch Engine has been used to process the corpus of The Guardian articles.Associative words with HEALTH have different frequency presentation in the associative experiment and in the media texts.Thus, the word vaccination has the leading position in the associative experiment with the stimulus word HEALTH, whereas according to corpus analysis of The Guardian articles, the most frequently used word is Covid.The words that are commonly frequent in the media discourse are pandemic, hospital, patient, virus, though these words are not at the top of the HEALTH association word list, and on the contrary, mask, doctor and Covid test which are favoured by students are less frequently used in the media texts.Due to different frequency we concentrated on the more detailed analysis of three lemmas -DOCTOR, PANDEMIC and QUARANTINE -in the media texts and considered their semantic prosody in the media context which demonstrated clearly positive presentation of the first lemma and negative of the two latter.As we investigated presentation of HEALTH in the broadsheet The Guardian, the further perspective is a study of the same associative words with HEALTH in tabloids which will include comparative analysis of the results gained in two studies.
Author: O.S. Sivaieva
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4320157656