Full Description
As the second of two companion volumes, this book advances the study on language and health by focusing on communication in action. The volume showcases applications of health communication in real contexts and illustrates how linguistics research and practice can address health inequalities across global contexts.
Building on the foundations in Healthcare, Language and Inclusivity Volume 1, this volume examines scientific and institutional discourses, community health campaigns, and health education initiatives, while addressing topics such as AI technologies, gender-inclusive language, graphic medicine, and youth health education. The contributors employ a range of linguistics and health communication methods, including corpus-assisted discourse analysis, multimodal and narrative approaches, and participatory research. Contributions include cross-cultural case studies, community-based projects, and innovative applications of machine learning. The volume emphasises how strategies of inclusive communication can help counter structural barriers and promote more equitable practices.
Together with Volume 1, this is an essential resource for academics working in linguistics and discourse studies applied to healthcare, as well as students seeking to understand how language both reflects and transforms health inequalities, while providing globally relevant perspectives and practical tools for effective healthcare communication.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Scientific and institutional discourses
1. Construing Health and Disability: A diachronic critical corpus assisted investigation of person-first and identity-first language in autism and aphasia
2. The inclusion of traditional Chinese medicine in conventional medicine: A move analysis of medical case reports
3. Power, Agency, and Resilience: Exploring Transgender Experiences within Hong Kong's Transgender Medical Support System
Part II: Promoting accessibility and inclusive healthcare
4. "Although I'm glad I kept pushing to get an answer, I really wish I had pushed harder": Uncovering Affect in cancer patients' caregivers' narratives
5. Making health information more accessible: a report on the OncoTRAD project
6. Inclusivity in non-translated and translated English, Spanish, and Catalan health information websites on HIV and Tuberculosis diagnostic testing
7. Machine learning and healthcare discourse research: sample applications
Part III: Diverse and inclusive healthcare education practices
8. 'I'm scared to say because I don't want people to judge me!' Coming out in a high school health class
9. Graphic Medicine and Community Engagement: Crafting a Doña from the Inland Empire
10. What is a woman made of? An analysis of the representation of women's health in the pedagogical projects of Medicine courses in the South of Brazil
11. Being Seen and Acknowledged as Sexual Beings: Representations of Youths with Disabilities in a Danish Sex Education Campaign
12. Metaphor and Stigma Communication in Chinese Video PSAs for Autism: Insights from Association Rule Mining
Index
