🗓️Save the date!
On 11-12 September 2025, Lancaster University is hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH). We hope to see you there!
For more information, see https://t.co/OC7QacKolk
In a recent study Professors @elenasemino, @steve_flusberg, and Mackey explored metaphors' impact on understanding #vaccinations. The castle metaphor, among the top performers, illustrates how #vaccines work.
Watch our animation to find out more:
https://t.co/yU4b8gJthY
The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis) is freely available online, and can now be downloaded from the @UKDataService’s ReShare repository.
You can find it here: https://t.co/0JoZJsO3xC
New open access paper from @vaccine_project in Discourse & Society.
We've talked about this at conferences & now it's officially out: “Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability”
https://t.co/SyLz8nP16P
Spotted a familiar title top left :) Thanks @BloomsburyLing
Many of the chapters are co-authored with clinicians and all are focused on making linguistic analysis relevant and applicable to healthcare practice
35% is a good discount too
#healthcommunication
#BAAL2023York delegates, have you been to see us yet? Still time this morning to chat with the lovely @SarahMac_Editor about your publishing plans and how they fit with ours.
Plus pick up a 35% discount form for all of these enticing new books & more! @BAAL2023York
Are developing or delivering a course on language & health or health communication? Or are you perhaps new to research in these fields? Are you a student writing a dissertation on topics related to language & health and are not sure where to start?
One place to begin might be:
New addition to your health communication bookshelf out today: Researching Language and Health: A Student Guide - by @ZsofiaDemjen, Sarah Atkins and myself
https://t.co/UfIQ7Ajn3O
New book by Sarah Atkins, @elenasemino and myself out next month. Researching Language and Health - a guide for student researchers and those new to the health domain.
https://t.co/NStNuinuyY