PLHIV Terminology and Metaphors in Chinese Media Discourse, 2010-2024

Yuhang Li's dataset contains terminology and metaphor usage for people living with HIV (PLHIV) extracted from a large-scale corpus of Chinese news articles published between 2010 and 2024. The analysis identifies 19 categories of PLHIV terminology, 12 categories of HIV/AIDS metaphors, and 48 distinct topics across five thematic communities. The dataset is stored in an XLS file and was last updated on 2026-05-13.

Use Cases

• Analyzing discursive shifts in HIV/AIDS media narratives based on the identified thematic communities.
• Studying the prevalence and typology of stigmatizing vs. de-identified terminology for PLHIV.
• Examining the conceptual framework of HIV/AIDS through the lens of war, journey, and entity metaphors.
• Investigating the strategic adaptations of media institutions within a state-dominated system based on the associations between terminology, metaphors, and themes.

Strengths

• Covers a 14-year time span from 2010 to 2024.
• Identifies 19 categories of PLHIV terminology and 12 categories of HIV/AIDS metaphors.
• Analysis is based on a large-scale corpus of news articles and uses multiple methods including ANTMN and collocation analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset size is only 9.5 KB, indicating a very limited scope of extracted summary data rather than the full corpus.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and media-source bias inherent to the corpus of Chinese news articles.

Provenance

Source

Yuhang Li via figshare

Collection Method

Extracted from a large-scale corpus of Chinese news articles using Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN), collocation analysis, Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), and network backbone methods.

Time Range

2010 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 17:35:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China