This project is an applied Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) study of mental health discourse in Malta. It focuses on how language in media, institutional communication, and social media constructs meanings around mental health.
The analysis is based on a simplified CDA framework inspired by Fairclough (1995), focusing on how texts represent mental health through language choices, framing, and ideological assumptions.
The project also incorporates a reflexive dimension through autoethnographic reflection, which explores how public discourse relates to lived and intergenerational experiences of mental health.
The aim is not only to analyse language, but also to explore how discourse shapes meaning, legitimacy, and understanding of mental health in everyday life.
