Analysing Health Communication

This edited book showcases original research in the study of healthcare and health communication,while also providing a detailed overview of contemporary methods of discourse analysis.Discourse approaches remain under-represented in the field of health communication, despite their potential for affording detailed understanding of health-related text and talk across an array of contexts, for example in face-to-face and digital healthcare encounters, health promotion, and patients' accounts of illness experiences.This book aims to address this gap in the literature by offering the first book-length treatment of different approaches to discourse analysis in health(care) and illness contexts, and itwill appeal both to linguists and to researchers in nursing and health sciences, sociology and anthropology.