A Quantitative Content Analysis of Person-First Language Use in Healthcare Research, Healthcare Practice, and by Support Groups for People with Disabilities
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50359#.VDssElfHRK0 Author(s) Maxwell Barnish Affiliation(s) Independent scholar, London, UK . ABSTRACT This article reports the results of an original quantitative linguistic study that investigated patterns of language use referring to people with disabilities in three data source types: written by support groups run for and by people with disabilities, healthcare researchers, and healthcare providers respectively. Quantitative content analysis was used to categorize the language use in a target sentence in each of the 9000 data sources in terms of whether it emphasized the person (person-first language) or the disability (non-person-first language)...