Discourses of Inclusive and Exclusionary Health Communication by Kondo, Kayo; Vilar-Lluch, Sara; Tsimpiri, Maria;

Short description:

As the first of two companion volumes, this book provides a comprehensive collection of applied linguistics studies on health inclusivity, showcasing empirical research and methodological insights on different languages such as British Sign Language, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Long description:

As the first of two companion volumes, this book provides a comprehensive collection of applied linguistics studies on health inclusivity, showcasing empirical research and methodological insights on different languages such as British Sign Language, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish.

The volume presents studies on health inclusivity based on first-hand patient experiences and explores the representation of health and illness across scientific, institutional, and media discourses. It features a wide range of linguistic methodologies and frameworks such as qualitative discourse studies, corpus-based discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, public involvement, narrative analysis, and metaphor analysis, as applied to a variety of contexts and communities. Integrating examples of projects and campaigns that promote inclusive healthcare, the chapters discuss potential practical implications and offers recommendations for applications to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

This is an essential resource for academics working in linguistics and discourse studies applied to healthcare, as well as students seeking deeper insights into how health communication, sociology, and health and social care workers can inform institutional practices and shape policy discussions and broaden social perspectives of health inclusivity across a global scale.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: health (in)equality and communication

Part I: Inclusive and respectful representations of health and illness in media discourses

1. Autism discourse in Japanese newspapers: An analysis of Yomiuri and Mainichi

2. “You try to educate and you try to educate, but then you just hit a wall.” Healthcare and conspiracy narratives around COVID-19

3. Language of Mental Health: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of Mental Health in the Newspapers and Public Forums in Malaysia

4. Exploring ADHD stereotypes in the British press over time: from disruptive boys to contested diagnosis

5. ‘They should get themselves a loving husband’: Gender Stereotypes and Biases in Official and Public Health Narratives Across languages

Part II: The power of narratives: respecting individual stories

6. Giving voice to deaf patients in Wales: Promoting more positive healthcare experiences through first-person narratives

7. Metaphorical language in signalling psychopathological experiences: a case study of interviews with trauma victims

8. What do people with communication difficulties want from their clinicians?

9. Voices from the Margins: The Value of a Blog for People with Communication Difficulties

10. The right to narrative freedom: a practice of inclusion

11. Making sense of breast cancer and migration: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

Index