Discourse on Disease in the Novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The master's thesis deals with the discourse analysis in the novel The Fault in Our Stars (2012) by John Green. The novel is classified as young adult, which has certain features and typical writing style. The thesis outlines the characteristics of young adult literature and explains the main differences between The Fault in Our Stars and other previous works of that genre. The main focus of the thesis is the discourse analysis of selected passages from the novel, which deal with disease in any form. The analysis has shown that the discourse on disease in the novel is based, contrary to expectation, predominantly on the various forms of lexical cohesion, and less on ellipsis and substitution.