Full Description
Language, Health and Culture brings together contributions by linguistic scholars working in the area of health communication in Asia—in particular, in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.
Olga Zayts-Spence and Susan M. Bridges, along with the contributors, draw on a diverse range of authentic data from different (primary, secondary, digital) healthcare contexts across Asia. The contributions probe empirical analyses and meta-reflections on the empirical, epistemological and theoretical foundations of doing research on language and health communication in Asia. While many of the medical and technological advances originate from the 'non-English-dominant'/'peripheral' contexts, when it comes to health communication, there is a strong tendency to downplay and marginalize the scope and the impact of the ripe research tradition in these contexts. The contributions to the edited volume problematize the hegemony of dominant (Anglocentric) traditions in health communication research by highlighting culture- and context-specific ways of interpreting different health realities through linguistic lenses.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Resisting responsibility for decision-making during medical consultation: a conversation analytic study in Singapore 3. How to make an unacceptable choice for a patient acceptable: an examination of the decision-making process in Japanese medical settings 4. Resistance to treatment recommendations: an interactional resource to increase information exchange and promote shared decision-making in medical encounters 5. Exploring end-of-life care in palliative care consultations in Hong Kong 6. Communicating health knowledges across clinic and community: the case of sex characteristics in plurilingual Hong Kong 7. The "mad consultant dealing with mad people": a discursive historical approach to tensions regarding mental health stigma in Hong Kong 8. The discursive construction and negotiation of genetic knowledge in an online health forum in Mainland China 9. Improving intergenerational communication: a case study of interactions between medical students and senior citizens in a Japanese community 10. Conclusion: advancing healthcare communication research in 'Global Peripheries'
