Domestic ‘zealotry’ and press discourse: Kevorkian's euthanasia incident

Rights discourse and neonatal euthanasia.

Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident

Book Description: Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publici...

Language and Linguistics Compass, in press Quantifiers and discourse processing

Quantifiers are ubiquitous in natural language and, in addition to providing information about quantity, they serve important discourse functions. We outline several theoretical accounts of the functions that quantifiers perform in a discourse and the factors governing their interpretation, focusing on two specific topics that have received substantial attention from researchers working in ling...

Physicians and euthanasia: a Canadian print-media discourse analysis of physician perspectives.

BACKGROUND Recent events in Canada have mobilized public debate concerning the controversial issue of euthanasia. Physicians represent an essential stakeholder group with respect to the ethics and practice of euthanasia. Further, their opinions can hold sway with the public, and their public views about this issue may further reflect back upon the medical profession itself. METHODS We conduct...

An Analysis of Domestic Abuse Discourse on Reddit

Domestic abuse affects people of every race, class, age, and nation. There is significant research on the prevalence and effects of domestic abuse; however, such research typically involves population-based surveys that have high financial costs. This work provides a qualitative analysis of domestic abuse using data collected from the social and news-aggregation website reddit.com. We develop c...