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http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/3569 http://eprints.org/relation/ispreviewThumbnailVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/3569 http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/3569 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/15/25 2011-05-13 09:02:15 2019-01-23 09:54:21 2011-07-19 16:37:45 thesis show 0 Shapero Jess Jann Hunston Susan 1953- ftp://ubira.bham.ac.uk/eTheses/1525_Shapero_Apx_Embargo/ University of Birmingham unpub PE P1 10col_artl Appendix C is not available online, nor is it available for consultation in the Library. It is OK to release Appendix C to requesters after July 2031, and for consultaion with the hardbound copy in the Library, but possibly not appropriate to make it openly available on the web. This thesis reports a study of a corpus of 286 suicide notes collected from the Birmingham Coroner’s Office, with additional findings from 33 real and 33 fabricated notes from Los Angeles. Following some background regarding how suicide notes are treated by Coroners’ Courts and other courts in the U.K, the thesis compares topics used in real and fabricated suicide notes. Although there is considerable overlap between the two categories, they can be partially distinguished by some features that are more likely to occur in one category than the other. For example, dates, indications of author identity and trivia are more likely to occur in real notes than fabricated ones. The thesis then concentrates on fake notes and scrutinises instances of atypical language or phraseology and contextually inappropriate content. It is found that these oddities are far more frequent in the fake notes than in the genuine ones. Finally the thesis focuses on the corpus of genuine notes from the Birmingham Coroner’s Office, using an automatic semantic tagger. The findings are that suicide notes contain significant proportions of items indicating affection, the future and their authors’ kin. In addition, the notes include significant proportions of pronouns, names, negatives, intensifiers, maximum quantity terms, and discourse markers. 2011-07 2011-02 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 283 University of Birmingham School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies, Department of English Literature d_ph na 2011-07 graduation