Inclusive Healthcare Communication in Action

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Scientific and institutional discourses1. Construing Health and Disability: A diachronic critical corpus assisted investigation of person-first and identity-first language in autism and aphasia2. The inclusion of traditional Chinese medicine in conventional medicine: A move analysis of medical case reports3. Power, Agency, and Resilience: Exploring Transgender Experiences within Hong Kong’s Transgender Medical Support SystemPart II: Promoting accessibility and inclusive healthcare4. “Although I’m glad I kept pushing to get an answer, I really wish I had pushed harder”: Uncovering Affect in cancer patients’ caregivers’ narratives5. Making health information more accessible: a report on the OncoTRAD project6. Inclusivity in non-translated and translated English, Spanish, and Catalan health information websites on HIV and Tuberculosis diagnostic testing7. Machine learning and healthcare discourse research: sample applicationsPart III: Diverse and inclusive healthcare education practices8. ‘I’m scared to say because I don’t want people to judge me!’ Coming out in a high school health class9. Graphic Medicine and Community Engagement: Crafting a Doña from the Inland Empire10. What is a woman made of? An analysis of the representation of women’s health in the pedagogical projects of Medicine courses in the South of Brazil11. Being Seen and Acknowledged as Sexual Beings: Representations of Youths with Disabilities in a Danish Sex Education Campaign12. Metaphor and Stigma Communication in Chinese Video PSAs for Autism: Insights from Association Rule MiningIndex