{"product_id":"health-and-risk-communication-rodney-jones-9780415672597","title":"Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHealth and Risk Communication\u003c\/em\u003e provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication, assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past research and charting new directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilizing data from clinical interactions and everyday life, this book addresses a number of crucial questions including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow are the everyday actions we take around health constructed and constrained through discourse?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat is the role of texts in influencing health behaviour, and how are these texts put together and interpreted by readers?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow are actions and identities around health and risk negotiated in situated social interactions, and what are the factors that influence these negotiations?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow will new technologies like genetic screening influence the way we communicate about health?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow does communication about health and risk help create communities and institutions and reflect and reproduce broader ideologies and patterns of power and inequality within societies?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHealth and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective \u003c\/em\u003eis essential reading for advanced students and researchers studying and working in this area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodney Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415672597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415672597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Rodney Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064944242943,"sku":"9780415672597","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0da9fcd-7864-495c-8747-2c40c5c9e656.jpg?v=1768672088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/health-and-risk-communication-rodney-jones-9780415672597","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}