Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: The Past 1. Broken lives and agency in a relationship 2. External and internal sources of suicide Part II: The Present 3. Suicide: the act outside discourse 4. Identities and speaking positions 5. The note - Exercise in timing Part III: The Future 6. ‘See you later’ - Non-finality of suicide 7. Narratives of continuous control Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

This book provides a qualitative discourse analysis of men's suicide notes, analyzing them as discursive texts.

About the Author

Dariusz Galasinski is Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw, Poland.

Reviews

[An] important publication that lays the foundation for the future study of suicide notes. It clearly delineates linguistic and discursive features of the corpus that are characteristic of the genre. More importantly, as this work presents a comprehensive cataloguing of suicide note features, it is able to challenge long-held assumptions on the nature and purpose of the suicide note.
*LINGUIST List*

The strength of this book is its interdisciplinarity: it is useful to a wide range of researchers, and Galasinski’s arguments for adopting discourse analysis in clinical research is convincing, well-argued and maintained through the book ... An important publication that enriches our understanding of the key themes of suicide notes and uses these observations to challenge previous research ... A valuable book for anyone interested in suicide research and health communication studies more generally.
*CADAAD Journal*