Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and
comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and
risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It
outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of
understanding health and risk communication, assesses the benefits
and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the
field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past
research and charting new directions.
Utilizing data from clinical interactions and everyday life,
this book addresses a number of crucial questions including:
- How are the everyday actions we take around health constructed
and constrained through discourse?
- What is the role of texts in influencing health behaviour, and
how are these texts put together and interpreted by readers?
- How are actions and identities around health and risk
negotiated in situated social interactions, and what are the
factors that influence these negotiations?
- How will new technologies like genetic screening influence the
way we communicate about health?
- How does communication about health and risk help create
communities and institutions and reflect and reproduce broader
ideologies and patterns of power and inequality within
societies?
Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective
is essential reading for advanced students and researchers studying
and working in this area.
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