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dc.contributor.author | Stvan, Laurel Smith | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-23T16:30:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-23T16:30:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Stvan, Laurel Smith. 2013. “Stress Management: Corpus-Based Insights into Vernacular Interpretations of Stress.” Communication & Medicine 10 (1): 81–93. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | DOI: 10.1558/cam.v10i1.81 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/30271 | |
dc.description.abstract | **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances of stress from non-academic texts in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of American Discourses on Health (CADOH) shows a negative prosody for
stress, which is portrayed variously as a source outside the body, a physical symptom within the body
and an emotional state. The data show that contemporary speakers intermingle the three senses, making
more difficult a discussion between doctors and patients of ways to ‘reduce stress’, when stress might be
interpreted as a stressor, a symptom, or state of anxiety. This conflation of senses reinforces the impression
that stress is pervasive and increasing. In addition, a semantic shift is also refining a new sense for
stress, as post-traumatic stress develops as a specific subtype of emotional stress whose use has increased
in circulation in the past 20 years. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Equinox | en_US |
dc.subject | linguistics, corpus linguistics, medical humanities | en_US |
dc.subject | polysemy, public health, terminology, health literacy | en_US |
dc.subject | stress | en_US |
dc.title | Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of "stress" | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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