Discourses of Inclusive and Exclusionary Health Communication Healthcare, Language, and Inclusivity, Volume 1

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

Kayo Kondo and Daisuke Son

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

Andreas Musolff

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

Theng Theng Ong  and Yahui Wang

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

Sara Vilar-Lluch and Hazel Price

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

Lorella Viola

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

Rob Wilks, Christopher Shank, Sarah Rhys Jones, and Anouschka Foltz

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

Amy Han Qiu

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

Carla Rohde

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

Rod Hermeston and Ben Rutter

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

Renana Stanger Elran and Lila Hefer

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

Margo Turnbull, Carol Yu, and Dennis Tay

Index

Biography

Kayo Kondo is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK. Her research collaborations extend across the UK and Japan, where she works closely with health and social care practitioners through research projects and academic seminars.

Sara Vilar-Lluch is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Her research interests are in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly as applied to health communication. Recent studies include applications to health guidance and immunization discourses.

Maria Tsimpiri is a linguist with a research background in (im)politeness, cross-linguistic influence, and speech acts, and how their dynamic shift impacts global communication. Her pedagogical affiliation is with the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the founder and director of Logos UK.

Taochen Zhou is Chinese Language Teaching and Learning Officer at the Confucius Institute at the University of Sheffield with a PhD in Applied Linguistics. Her research interests and publications focus on metaphor analysis, functional grammar, language acquisition, and language and aging.

Andreas Musolff is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has published widely on Political Discourse and Figurative Language.