LIN6204 Language and Health Communication

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Department of Linguistics School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Queen Mary, University of London LIN6204 LANGUAGE AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION Semester 1, 2017 When and where

Tuesdays, 16.00-18.00, Queens E303

Course organiser Dr Nelya Koteyko Bancroft 2.36 Office hours: Thursdays, 14.00-16.00

Other teachers

Zoe Adams ([email protected]) Tom Rausch ([email protected]) Danniella Samos ([email protected]) Christian Ilbury ([email protected])

Guest lecturers

Dr. Anna De Simoni, GP (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry) Dr. Beverley Costa, psychotherapist (Chief Executive Officer and Clinical Director, Mothertongue)

What this module is about This is an applied linguistics module that considers how linguistic concepts and linguistic analysis can be applied to real world problems and issues in health communication. By the end of the module you will have studied the role language plays in health care delivery and in how we experience health and illness. You will also have examined how health issues are discussed and represented in our personal lives as well as in public domains, and how our experience of health and our beliefs about different aspects of health are constructed through language. You will have analysed many different kinds of health communication, including personal stories about health and illness, patient-healthcare professional interactions, blogs and other kinds of online interaction, media representations, public health information and national health campaigns. What you will learn By the end of the course you’ll have a good knowledge of the different methods and approaches used in the study of language and health communication, and of how this branch of applied linguistics has developed over the years. You will be proficient in analysing different kinds of data from quantitative, qualitative and multimodal perspectives; and you will have considered the way that language is involved in a range of different health issues such as cancer, keeping fit, mental health and diabetes.

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NOTE: If there’s a specific health issue that you would prefer us not to discuss, email us straight away to let us know. It is too late to change the required reading, but we could change the content of class discussions and data analysis. Course requirements • You are expected to attend every week. We have to keep a course register, so if you can’t come one week, please let us know either before or after the course. NOTE: Please use your qmul email address and be sure to write your name and last name in the email – otherwise we may not know who you are! •

We have set two readings for each week. Please read this material before you come to the class, and be ready to talk about it.This is the minimum required reading for the module; we will provide additional optional reading for some weeks, and you can follow up the references to find yet more reading.

Assessment • an oral presentation given with one other student, lasting no more than 10 minutes (10 per cent of the total marks); • a one-hour in-class test (30 per cent of the total marks) on 21 November; • one linguistic analysis research project (60 per cent of the total marks) to be submitted no later than Sunday 7 January 2018, 23.55 p.m. There are more details on the separate Assessment sheet.

PROGRAMME AND REQUIRED READING

26 September

Introduction to Language and Health Communication Nelya Koteyko

READING

Candlin, C. & Candlin, S. (2003). Healthcare Communication: A problematic site for Applied Linguistics Research. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23: 134-154.

3 October

Narratives in Health Communication Nelya Koteyko

READING

Cheshire, J. & Ziebland, S. (2005). Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness In Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates (eds.), The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 17–40. Sools, A. (2013). Narrative health research: exploring big and small stories as analytical tools. Health, 17(1): 93-110.

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10 October

Discourse analysis and Conversation Analysis Nelya Koteyko and Tom Rausch

READING

Roberts, C. & Sarangi, S. (2005). Theme-oriented discourse analysis of medical encounters. Medical Education 39: 632-640 Drew, P., J. Chatwin & Collins, S. (2001). Conversation Analysis: a method for research into interactions between patients and health-care professionals. Health Expectations 4: 58-70.

17 October

Metaphor analysis Nelya Koteyko

READING

Nerlich, B. and Halliday, C. (2007) Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media. Sociology of Health & Illness, 29 (1). pp. 46-65. Semino, E. (2008). Metaphor in other genres and discourses: two further case studies. In Metaphor in Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University pp. 169-190. Press [NOTE: you could skip section 5.2, on advertising, if time is short]

24 October

Corpus Linguistics Danniella Samos

READING

Atkins, S. & Harvey, K. (2010). How to use corpus linguistics in the study of health communication. In A. O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 605619. Semino, E., Demjén Z., Demmen J., Koller, V., Payne, S., Hardie A., & Rayson, P. (2014). The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care doi.10.1136/bmjspcare-2014000785.

31 October

Online support groups and social media Nelya Koteyko

READING

Gordon, C. (2015). “I would suggest you tell this ^^^to your doctor”: Online narrative problem-solving regarding face-to-face doctor-patient interaction about body weight. In F. Gygax

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and M. Locher (eds.,) Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 117140. Koteyko, N. & Hunt, D. (2016). Performing health identities on social media: An online observation of Facebook profiles. Discourse, Context and Media 12: 59-67. 7 November

READING WEEK

14 November

Self-tracking Apps and m-health (mobile health) practices Nelya Koteyko and Christian Ilbury

READING

Jones, R. (2013) Cybernetics, discourse analysis and the entextualization of the human. Plenary address, Annual Meeting of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics, April 18-20, 2013. Revision and Preparation for class test

21 November

In-class test

28 November

Health Communication in Practice Anna De Simone, GP and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, QMUL Beverley Costa, psychotherapist and CEO of Mothertongue (http://www.mothertongue.org.uk/index.php)

READING

Balasooriya-Smeekens, C., Bateman, A., Mant, J., & Simoni, A. (2016). Barriers and facilitators to staying in work after stroke: insight from an online forum. BMJ Open 2016; 6:e009974. Costa, B. (2014) You can call me Betty. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2014: 20-25.

5 December

Persuasion and advertising in health Zoe Adams

READING

Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2009). If it’s difficult to pronounce, it must be risky. Fluency, familiarity and risk perception. Psychological Science 20: 135-138

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Brookes, G. & Harvey, K. (2015). Peddling a semiotics of fear: a critical examination of scare tactics and commercial strategies in public health promotion. Social Semiotics 25: 5780.

12 December

Seeking help from health professionals online Nelya Koteyko

READING

Harvey K., Churchill, D., Crawford, P, Brown, B, Mullany, L, Macfarlane, A & Mcpherson, A., (2008). Health communication and adolescents: What do their emails tell us? Family Practice. 25(4), 304-311. Locher, M. and Hoffman, S. (2006). The emergence of the identity of a fictional expert advice-giver in an American Internet advice column. Text & Talk 26 (1): 69–106.

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