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Health and risk communication : an applied linguistic perspective /
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, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Health and Risk Communication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; 1 Communicating health and risk; Health and risk in the twenty-first century; The organization of this book; Intellectual roots of an applied linguistic approach; 2 Applied linguistics: discourse in action; Applied linguistics; 'Hearing' voices; Discourse and action; 3 Entextualizing health and risk; Texts and the discursive construction of health and risk; Lexicalization; Grammaticalization; Personalization; Organization; Resemiotization.
- 4 Sites of engagementWhat are we doing?; Who are we being?; Framing and positioning in discussions about risk; 5 Beyond the clinic; What we talk about when we talk about health; Risky interactions; 6 Health, risk, and the entextualized body; Inscription; Narrativization; 7 Virtual bodies; Medical imaging; Electronic medical records; Welcome to you!': the reflexive dimension of virtual bodies; 8 Cultures, communities, and social networks; 'Culture' and health; Health, risk, and 'communities'; Social networks: 'going viral'; 9 Conclusion: discourse itineraries and research itineraries.
- Opening the circumferenceApplied linguistics as a nexus of practice; Practical applications; References; Index.