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Terminology of disability: A historical perspective
Půlkrabová, Kateřina ; Luef, Eva Maria (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
and key words: This bachelor thesis aimed to investigate the development of disability terminology, specifically focusing on mental health issues, and its evolving frequency in newspapers from 1990 to 2019. The data was sourced from the COCA corpora, and the list of terms was based on the Disability Style Guide, established by the National Center on Disability and Journalism, with support from the categorization provided by the World Health Organization's ICD-11 browser. The primary focus was on examining the average frequency of 26 terms, primarily in three major newspapers: the New York Times, USAToday, and Washington Post. Additionally, the study observed the developmental patterns of the most frequently used words on the list, along with derogatory terms. The findings indicated an overall inclination towards an increase in average frequency, with noticeable variations in peaks and troughs across all analyzed categories. The derogatory terms demonstrated distinct fluctuations in all three newspapers, suggesting their continuous usage in journalism. The three newspapers exhibited significant differences, sharing high peaks in the later part of the analyzed period and inclining trandline. This area of research remains relatively underexplored, as there are limited studies focusing on the average...
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Terminology of disability: A historical perspective
Půlkrabová, Kateřina ; Luef, Eva Maria (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
and key words: The aim of this bachelor thesis is an analysis of the development of disability terminology in the past three decades. It intends to find out whether the disability terms are appearing more or less frequently in the Corpora Of Contemporary American English. Additionally, it analyses the differences, over the years, in the frequency of terms that are preferred to be used in comparison to the ones that are advised to be avoided. It also comments on the usage of terms from various kinds of groups of disabilities in different genres. This thesis first presents the theoretical part, which sets the background for the upcoming chapters, results and discussion. The theory also contains an explanation of disability, its history and terminology, together with information from previous pieces of research. The data from the analysis show that disability terms' frequency is declining. The biggest declination can be seen in terms that are advised to be avoided by the original source of terms. Over the years, the individual groups showed slightly different development of frequency. When it comes to the average frequency in genres, the highest one was spotted in the academic sphere. The list of preferred words shows similar results, contrary to the second list, where the frequency was the highest in...
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