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Zusatztext This collection will be of immense value to students and researchers interested in communication in healthcare! as well as to inter-professional researchers and practitioners. Co-authored by international leaders of the field! it is comprehensive! well-structured and systematic. We have all been waiting for a book like this. Informationen zum Autor Zsófia Demjén is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Applied Linguistics! University College London! UK. Demonstrates the value of applied linguistic methods for improving the understanding of illness and death experiences, making sense of different health care contexts, as well as improving medical communication, prevention programmes, diagnosis and treatments. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Zsófia Demjén Part I: The experience of illness 1. “One gives bad compliments about me, and the other one is telling me to do things” – (Im)Politeness and power in reported interactions between voice-hearers and their voices, Zsófia Demjén, Agnes Marszalek, Elena Semino and Filippo Varese 2. Corpus linguistics in illness and healthcare contexts: a case study of diabulimia support groups, Gavin Brookes 3. Using a comparative corpus-assisted approach to study health and illness discourses across domains: the case of postnatal depression (PND) in lay, medical and media texts, Karen Kinloch and Sylvia Jaworska 4. Applying corpus linguistics to a diagnostic tool for pain, Elena Semino, Andrew Hardie and Joanna Zakrzewska Part II: Relating to each other 5. Improving HIV/AIDS consultations in Malawi: how interactional sociolinguistics can contribute, Rachel Chimbwete-Phiri and Stephanie Schnurr 6. Empathy displays in Dutch chat counselling: showcasing a microanalysis of online data, Wyke Stommel and Joyce Lamerichs 7. The functions of narrative passages in three written online health contexts, Franziska Thurnherr, Marie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr and Miriam A. Locher Part III: Illness in the mas...
