Health and Risk Communication : An Applied Linguistic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415672603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 212 str.

Rodney Jones

Opis

Providing a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics, this book outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding to health and risk communication, assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past research and charting new directions.

Spis treści

1. Communicating Health and Risk  2. Applied Linguistics: Discourse in Action  3. Entextualizing Health and Risk  4. Sites of Engagement  5. Beyond the Clinic  6. Health, Risk and the Entextualized Body  7. Virtual Bodies  8. Cultures, Communities and Social Networks  9. Discourse Itineraries and Research Itineraries

O autorze

Rodney H. Jones is Associate Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong.