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Studies on Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Suicide Notes and Suicidal Thoughts Posts

Haya Abdul-Salam Jasim, Eman Adil Jaafar

Volume: 12 Issue: 1 2022

Abstract:

A suicide note is a piece of writing written or posted online by someone who dares to end his/her life and admits that he/she did it intentionally and willingly for different reasons, which vary according to each person and his/her circumstances. Suicidal people usually explain this behavior by leaving suicide notes in which they will either express their feelings to their lovers or blame someone or just have a chance to say their last words. Different studies deal with suicide notes from different perspectives; most of these studies belong to psychology but to have a full understanding of what suicide notes are all about, most of the scholars in these studies have used linguistic analysis to examine the content of suicide notes. Thus, the researchers include some of these studies within this paper. This study draws on the other previous studies that deal with the content of suicide notes and the stylistics studies aiming to extract the linguistic features of particular texts; the researchers will describe these studies in detail within this study. Then, the researchers will present the most prominent scholars and the influential studies related to linguistic suicide analysis.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i01.006

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