Analyzing Judgment in Bipolar Depression Patients' Narratives Using Syntactic Patterns: A Corpus-Based Study | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Language Engineering | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 2019, Pages 1-11 PDF (825.57 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejle.2019.59103 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed Abdo* 1; Amany Yousef Ali2; Nihal Sarhan3 | ||
| 1MA candidate at Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University | ||
| 2Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, the British University in Egypt | ||
| 3Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EGYPT | ||
| Abstract | ||
| For years, the Internet has provided patients with mental health disorders with several platforms where they share their personal experiences with their medical conditions. This study aims at exploring online narratives shared by patients with Bipolar Depression disorder where they self-report their medical diagnoses of the disorder and reflect on the hardships they go through in their lives. The study employs Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal Theory to examine the JUDGMENTS that patients make about their behaviors and the behaviors of people around them. In order to extract the JUDGMENT utterances from the corpus of narratives, the study uses syntactic patterns that may yield evaluative utterances. The results of the study show that judgments which belong to capacity [i.e., how (in)capable a person is] and propriety [i.e., how (un)ethical a person is] measure the highest scores among all other subtypes of JUDGMENT. The study also provides a lexicon for the most frequent expressions that convey JUDGMENT, which could be used to enrich the Appraisal resources. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Bipolar depression; Syntactic patterns; psycholinguistics; Corpus linguistics | ||
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