What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization

The 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 in...

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Main Author: Adelia Carstens
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Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2022-10-01
Series:Communicare
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1792
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description The 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.
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spelling doaj-art-5a4928f10d2e4ed6a6c7c211d7ace7832025-01-20T08:51:20ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-10-0122210.36615/jcsa.v22i2.1792What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatizationAdelia Carstens0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1518-6170University of Pretoria The 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. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1792HIV/AIDSAIDS-related stigmatizationAfrikaans-speakinglay illness narrativesmedia discoursesconvergence
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What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization
Communicare
HIV/AIDS
AIDS-related stigmatization
Afrikaans-speaking
lay illness narratives
media discourses
convergence
title What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization
title_full What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization
title_fullStr What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization
title_full_unstemmed What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization
title_short What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization
title_sort what lay illness narratives reveal about aids related stigmatization
topic HIV/AIDS
AIDS-related stigmatization
Afrikaans-speaking
lay illness narratives
media discourses
convergence
url https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1792
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