What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization

dc.contributor.authorCarstens, Adelia
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-12T05:55:36Z
dc.date.available2011-01-12T05:55:36Z
dc.date.issued2003-12
dc.description.abstractThe main purpose of this contribution is to broaden the understanding of variables surrounding the stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS by analyzing a corpus of Afrikaans-speaking teenagers' narratives on HIV/AIDS. Support is given for the hypothesis that lay illness narratives are interdiscursive constructions, based on media discourses about HIV/AIDS, and mapped against the mental schemas of the narrator's own life and identity. Instances of convergence as well as dissonance between reported illness narratives (media narratives) and lay illness narratives are highlighted, with specific reference to the clustering of stereotypical features, constituting three archetypes of people living with HIV/AIDS, namely the AIDS carrier, the AIDS victim and the AIDS survivor.en
dc.identifier.citationCarstens, A 2003, 'What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization', Communicare: Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa/Tydskrif vir Kommunikasiewetenskappe in Suider-Afrika, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 1-24. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_comcare.html]en
dc.identifier.issn0259-0069
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/15677
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouthern African Communication Associationen_US
dc.rightsSouthern African Communication Associationen
dc.subjectLay illness narrativesen
dc.subjectAIDS-related stigmatizationen
dc.subjectNarrative writingen
dc.subject.lcshHIV-positive youthen
dc.subject.lcshStigmatizationen
dc.subject.lcshAIDS (Disease) -- Social aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshTeenagers' writingsen
dc.titleWhat lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatizationen
dc.typeArticleen

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