Cancer Narratives of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

Chinese mental illness narratives: Controlling the spirit

“…A framework suitable for analysing narratives, therefore, needs to be capable of not only accounting for the structure of and meanings conveyed in a narrative, but also of evaluating how a narrative achieves meanings and purposes. Kameny and Bearison (2002) describe such a framework for analysing illness narratives. Their framework seeks to identify sentence-level themes and linguistic features appearing in an illness narrative and relates them to broader 'domains' deemed salient to the narrating of any illness experience.…”

“…Their framework seeks to identify sentence-level themes and linguistic features appearing in an illness narrative and relates them to broader 'domains' deemed salient to the narrating of any illness experience. Narrative themes and linguistic features deemed to characterize an illness narrative have emerged from previous research into the experience of specific illnesses and, in addition, may emerge during the process of analysis (Kameny and Bearison 2002). However, in practice there remains a high degree of commonality in themes and linguistic features across narratives dealing with differing illnesses.…”

“…The framework views the sentence-level themes and linguistic features comprising an illness narrative as contextually positioned in relation to three primary narrative domains salient to the illness experience: the personal, the social and the medical (Kameny and Bearison 2002;Robinson 1990). The personal domain mediates experience pertaining to the ill individual; the social domain mediates experience involving others, such as family, health professionals and the general public; and the medical domain mediates the experience of medical intercession.…”

“…The personal domain mediates experience pertaining to the ill individual; the social domain mediates experience involving others, such as family, health professionals and the general public; and the medical domain mediates the experience of medical intercession. The framework recognizes that these primary domains frequently intersect and overlap, for example, in relating experiences where the individual engages with others or with medical protocols, or where all three interconnect (Robinson 1990;Kameny and Bearison 2002). In recounting an illness experience the themes and linguistic features comprising a narrative, therefore, come to mediate the following composite domain categories (Kameny and Bearison 2002: 151):…”

“…That is, sentence-level content in an illness narrative that recounts, for example, a gaining of control can be coded according to where that gaining of control is actually located in terms of the salient domains: as personal control, as control of medical treatment, as control of social interactions, etc. In addition to the characterization of illness narrative in terms of constituent themes and linguistic features and their attendant relationship to salient narrative domains, emotive content is also evaluated in terms of the overall positivity or negativity evident in expressed sentiment (Kameny and Bearison 2002). The analytic Kameny and Bearison 2002: 152;Knight 2006: 101) picture of the illness narrative texts that this approach provides allows judgements then to be made about the discursive form of the narrative texts in terms of the salient social and cultural dimensions in play (Bury 2001).…”