MOMENT: Metaphors of severe mental disorder. Discourse analysis of affected people and mental health professionals

Identifier:  imarina:6389505

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina6389505

Authors:  Coll-Florit M; Climent S; Correa-Urquiza M; Hernandez E; Oliver A; Pie A

Abstract:
© 2018 Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. The MOMENT project aims to contribute to a better understanding of severe mental disorders by analyzing the discourse of the two main groups involved, affected people and mental health professionals, in the light of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Corpus Linguistics methodology. In this framework, a corpus of first-person accounts from both groups will be designed, built and manually annotated. In turn, the corpus will serve as an experimental bank for automatic detection of metaphors. Therefore, MOMENT aims to improve both manual and automatic metaphor detection and annotation. From a social point of view, the goal of the project is twofold: on the one hand, to detect and systematize dominant conceptualizations and ideas about the disorder; and, on the other hand, to identify and promote the change of potential discourses which deny the agentive capacity of affected people.