Publications

Publication details [#27791]

McKay, Susan and Frances Bonner. 2002. Evaluating illness in women´s magazines. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 21 (1) : 53–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | function | mass media | narrative | women's language

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores the characteristics and possible functions of personal illness narratives in three Australian mass-market women's magazines over the past 20 years.