Care Communication: Making a home in a Japanese eldercare facility

ISBN-13: 9780367410667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Peter Backhaus

Opis

Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the analysis explores the characteristics of care communication in institutional eldercare as they manifest in the interactional small print. The research findings are contextualised with results from previous studies, tracing significant features and explanation for deviant cases.

O autorze

Peter Backhaus is Associate Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo. His main research interests are sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and writing and orthography. Publications include Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo (Multilingual Matters, 2007) and Communication in Elderly Care: Cross-cultural Perspectives (ed., Continuum, 2011).