The Discursive Construal of Mental Health in Contemporary English

Student: Kichaeva Vera

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2020

The focus of this work is the discursive construal of mental health in contemporary English. Discourse is analyzed from the point of view of such fields of science as sociology, psychology, and linguistics. The paper aims to study, describe and systematize the language elements used in modern English culture for the discursive construal of the “mental health” phenomenon. Examples from the mass English culture are given as empirical material based on the corpus method and the method of continuous sampling. This paper describes cognitive models of mental health perception and gives various language examples. As a result, the main tendencies of the discursive construal are found and main concepts of mental health in modern English culture are formulated.

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