ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications.
The Handbook is divided into three sections:
- Individuals’ everyday health communication
- Health professionals’ communicative practices
- Patient-provider communication in interaction
Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication, narrative, and observations of authentic, naturally-occurring contexts. The chapters are written by international authorities representing a wide range of perspectives and approaches.
Building on established work with cutting-edge studies on the changing health communication landscape, this volume will be an essential reference for all those involved in health communication and applied linguistics research and practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction: health communication as applied linguistics
part |2 pages
Part I Individuals’ everyday health communication
chapter |60 pages
Perceptions and understandings about health
chapter |78 pages
Linguistic constructions of health
chapter |59 pages
Health interactions
chapter |31 pages
Consuming health messages
part |2 pages
Part II Health professionals’ communicative practices
chapter |117 pages
Professionalization
chapter |59 pages
Inter-professional interactions
part |2 pages
Part III Patient–provider communication in interaction