All aspects of illness and healthcare are mediated by language:
experiences of illness, death and healthcare provision are talked
and written about (face-to-face or online), while medical
consultations, research interviews, public health communications
and even some diagnostic instruments are all inherently linguistic
in nature. How we talk to, about and for each other in such a
sensitive context has consequences for our relationships, our sense
of self, how we understand and reason about our health, as well as
for the quality care we receive. Yet, linguistic analysis has been
conspicuously absent from the mainstream of medical education,
health communication training and even the medical or health
humanities. The chapters in this volume bring together applied
linguistic work using discourse analysis, corpus methods,
conversation analysis, metaphor analysis, cognitive linguistics,
multiculturalism research, interactional sociolinguistics,
narrative analysis, and (im)politeness to make sense of a variety
of international healthcare contexts and situations. These include:
-clinician-patient interactions -receptionist-patient interactions
-online support forums -online counselling -public health
communication -media representations -medical accounts -diagnostic
tools and definitions -research interviews with doctors and
patients The volume demonstrates how linguistic analysis can not
only improve understandings of the lived-experience of different
illnesses, but also has implications for communications training,
disease prevention, treatment and self-management, the
effectiveness of public health messaging, access to appropriate
care, professional mobility and professional terminology, among
others.
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