Abstract
In this article we are interested in stories of sons and daughters about their fathers who completed suicide. The data come from ten interviews with survivors of suicidal death of their fathers. Taking a constructionist view of discourse, we aim to analyse sons’ and daughters’ narratives in the context of two conflicting discourses of (positive) fatherhood and (negative) suicide. We shall show how they use the discursive strategies of distancing in the narratives about fathers’ suicide as a means of coping with the two conflicting discourses. And so, first, they avoid labelling the act as suicide, second, they avoid direct reference to the fact that it was their father who completed the act, third, they dilute the father’s responsibility for the act.Citation
Galasinski, D., Ziółkowska, J. (2016) 'Discursive Construction of Fatherly Suicide', Critical Discourse Studies, 14(2), pp. 150-166. doi: 10.1080/17405904.2016.1250650Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Critical Discourse StudiesAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405904.2016.1250650Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1740-5904ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/17405904.2016.1250650
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