Dementia Patients as Discursively Constructed in Taiwanese Newspapers: Taking United Daily News Samples as Examples
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Owing to the increasing prevalence of dementia, the importance of improving public awareness of the disease is highlighted. Newspaper is one of the most influential sources for people to gain information regarding dementia and also to reinforce the negative stereotypes. Given the lack of relative literature on the portrayals of dementia patients in Asian contexts, this present study examined the relative news coverage (in 1999 and 2019) in one Taiwanese newspaper (United Daily News) to explore the linguistic features representing dementia patients and the ideological implications as to what dementia patients are like. The portrayals of dementia patients were analyzed in terms of role allocation and referential strategies. In terms of role allocation, dementia patients were described in activation in verbal processes such as getting lost, memory loss, and loss of self-care abilities while people with dementia were depicted in passivation with verbal processes such as receiver of services and help with patience or love. Regarding referential strategies, the results showed that dementia patients were shaped into groups characterized mainly by the disease and also the advanced ages. Moreover, full names of dementia patients were provided only when they were celebrities or those with impressive professional identities. The outcomes revealed that most dementia patients were depicted with negative connotations and this could mislead audiences’ perceptions about them as if it is not possible to identify autonomy, independence or remaining capacities of coping lives in them.
Chin-Hui Chen, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Yan-Hua Huang, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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