Researching Language and Health: A Student Guide

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Researching Language and Health explores key topics in illness and healthcare contexts through multiple linguistic lenses. This book highlights key themes, guides readers through the design stages of research and the ethical considerations specific to linguistic health research, and brings methods and methodologies to life by demonstrating how these can be applied to specific issues in context. Covering a wide range of health conditions, healthcare contexts, and data types, with an emphasis on those most accessible to students and new researchers, the authors foreground the ‘so what?’ of research and the impact that linguistic studies can have. Both a guide to key elements of the research process and a holistic view of research projects that have been successful, insightful, and impactful in different contexts, this is an essential text for advanced students and researchers in healthcare communication and applied linguistics. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Part I Planning your research Chapter 1 Introduction to Researching Language and Health Chapter 2 Getting started with research: Questions, data, methods Chapter 3 Ethics in health and language research Part II Investigating language and health Chapter 4 Agency, responsibility, and risk in public health communication Chapter 5 Literary representations of illness and public perceptions Chapter 6 Negotiating relationships and identities in spoken healthcare interactions Chapter 7 Digital technologies and health talk online Chapter 8 Digital health communication and the lived experience of illness Part III Learning from research in language and health: Case studies Chapter 9 Medical advertising and medicalization: A multimodal critical discourse analysis Chapter 10 Metaphors and Covid-19 in 2020 Chapter 11 Vaccination narratives in response to hesitancy online Chapter 12 Authenticity and medical communication skills training Chapter 13 Storytelling and affiliation amongst healthcare professionals Index