About this ebook
This second edition features a new editorial team and introduction, as well as eleven new chapters addressing developments in areas such as multimodal discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, metaphor analysis, pandemic risk communication, and communication skills training for health professionals. Through case studies of online health communities, social media discourse, and public health communication, contributors examine how communicative practices organise experiences of health and illness, with new chapters addressing topics such as Covid-19 memes, storefront Covid-19 signs and digital crowdfunding.
Combining established approaches to language analysis with methods suited to contemporary digital and multimodal environments, the handbook demonstrates the contribution of linguistic research to understanding health communication in practice. It offers a critical account of the ways communication mediates clinical relationships, public understandings of health, and interactions between communities and healthcare systems.
About the author
Nelya Koteyko is Professor of Language and Communication in the School of Arts, Queen Mary University of London.
Kevin Harvey is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of English, University of Nottingham.
Daniel Hunt is Associate Professor of Discourse Analysis in the School of English, University of Nottingham.
Gavin Brookes is Reader in Linguistics and English Language in the School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University.
