Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes: A Qualitative Analysis

by Dariusz Galasiński

Book Overview

Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement that suicide notes are social texts, there has been no book which analyzes suicide notes as discursive texts and no attempt at a qualitative discourse analysis of them. Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes redresses this gap in the literature.

Focussing on men and masculinity and anchored in qualitative discourse analysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350109029
• ISBN13: 9781350109025
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"