‘The monster in the back seat’

Q4 Medicine

Communication and Medicine Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI:10.1558/cam.22492

Silke Creten, Priscilla C. Heynderickx, Sylvain M Dieltjens

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Abstract

People living with dementia (PWDs) often experience stigma that is reinforced by negative representations of the condition in discourse. This paper addresses the lack of research into this stigma by analyzing the representation of the condition in naturally occurring texts of people in direct contact with PWDs. Two blogs from Flemish family caregivers and one blog from a Flemish health professional were selected based on word count and keyword relevance, and studied both quantitatively and qualitatively. For the quantitative analysis keywords, n-grams, and collocations were identified in 225 blog posts, using Sketch Engine. For the qualitative analysis, 26 blog posts were analyzed by categorizing conceptual metaphors according to their conceptual mappings. The quantitative analysis indicates that the health professional employs a different approach in reporting, compared to the family caregivers. The qualitative analysis results in five conceptual mappings: PWDs as living dead, PWDs as trees, dementia as concealment, dementia as an acting entity and dementia as an attack. The frequency of these mappings shows that the condition is being dissociated from the PWDs, and described with more negative metaphors than the PWDs themselves.

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“后座上的怪物”

痴呆症患者经常遭受耻辱，而话语中对痴呆症的负面描述又加剧了这种耻辱。本文通过分析与残疾人直接接触的人的自然发生文本中对这种耻辱的表现，解决了对这种耻辱的缺乏研究。根据字数和关键词相关性，选取两个来自佛兰德家庭护理人员的博客和一个来自佛兰德卫生专业人员的博客，进行定量和定性研究。对于定量分析关键词，n-grams和搭配在225篇博客文章中被识别，使用Sketch Engine。在定性分析方面，根据概念隐喻的概念映射对26篇博客文章进行了分类。定量分析表明，与家庭照顾者相比，卫生专业人员在报告中采用了不同的方法。定性分析得出五个概念映射:残疾人士是活死人、残疾人士是树、痴呆症是隐蔽性、痴呆症是行为实体和痴呆症是一种攻击。这些映射的频率表明，这种情况与残疾患者是分离的，并且用比残疾患者本身更多的消极隐喻来描述。

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