The main purpose of this contribution is to broaden the understanding of variablessurrounding the stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS by analyzing a corpus ofAfrikaans-speaking teenagers' narratives on HIV/AIDS. Support is given for the hypothesisthat lay illness narratives are interdiscursive constructions, based on media discoursesabout HIV/AIDS, and mapped against the mental schemas of the narrator's own life andidentity. Instances of convergence as well as dissonance between reported illnessnarratives (media narratives) and lay illness narratives are highlighted, with specificreference to the clustering of stereotypical features, constituting three archetypes ofpeople living with HIV/AIDS, namely the AIDS carrier, the AIDS victim and the AIDSsurvivor.
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Carstens, A. (2022). What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization. Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, 22(2), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v22i2.1792