1st Edition
Death Discourse in China’s Changing Culture of Health
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1. Death Discourse in a Changing Culture
Gao Yihong
Part II The Living Will in China: Emergence and Development of a New Genre
Overview: The Living Will as a New Genre in China
Gao Yihong
Chapter 2 The First Chinese Living Will: Textual Features and Production Rationale
Li Zhuobin
Chapter 3 Living Will Promotion Speeches: A Discourse Study of Speakers’ Narrative Positions
Liu Chenwei
Chapter 4 Tensions in College Students’ Perceptions of Living Will: A Response Discourse Perspective
Liu Jianyu, Liu Yi and Guo Baoqi
Chapter 5 Diachronic Development of “Living Will” in Chinese Media and Research: A Corpus-Assisted Study
Li Yirui and Zheng Xiaoting
Part III Breaking the Ice: Bad News Delivery and Acceptance
Overview: Bad News Delivery in China
Meng Ling
Chapter 6 Breaking or not Breaking Bad News: Tensions in Medical Discursive Practice
Meng Ling
Chapter 7 Who Is to Be Informed in the Bad News Delivery? The Priority Transfer in Medical Discourse
Meng Ling
Chapter 8 Initiating and Developing End-of-Life Care Topics in an Outpatient Clinic: A Conversation Analytical Study
Li Fang and Lu Guijun
Chapter 9 Diachronic Development of “Breaking Bad News” Research in China: A Bibliometric Analysis
Sun Minghui, Meng Ling and Liao Mingxin
Part IV Towards Good Quality of Death: Hospice Care Discourse
Overview: Hospice and Palliative Care in China
Gao Yihong
Chapter 10 From Curative to Hospice Care: Negotiating the Transition
Huang Fang and Wang Xiaodong
Chapter 11 Physicians’ Speech Acts and Identities in Hospice Care Family Meetings
Gao Yihong and Qin Yuan
Chapter 12 Aroma Care in Hospice Wards: Multimodal Texts and Discursive Practice
Gao Yihong, Lai Peiwen and Yu Wenting
Chapter 13 Diachronic Development of “Hospice Care” in Chinese Media: A Corpus-Assisted Study
Huang Fang, Yi Li and Zheng Xiaoting
Part V Conclusion
Chapter 14 Conclusion: Death Discourse Literacy, New Habitus, and a Changing Culture
Luo Zhengpeng and Gao Yihong
Biography
Gao Yihong is Professor of Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, China.
Meng Ling is Head of the English Department and Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Studies at South China Normal University, China.
