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LINGUIST List 19.3726

Fri Dec 05 2008

Books: Discourse Analysis/Applied Ling: Ramsay

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Shaping Minds: Ramsay
Message 1: Shaping Minds: Ramsay
Date: 05-Dec-2008
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Shaping Minds: Ramsay
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Title: Shaping Minds
Subtitle: A discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 32
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC%2032

Author: Guy Ramsay
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290830 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290830 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206206 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206206 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:

Mental illness is an increasing concern of government health services
across the globe. It is timely, therefore, that community education about
mental illness is subject to discourse analysis. Shaping Minds
explores how the psychoeducational message is presented to Chinese-speaking
audiences in China, Taiwan and Australia. The book uniquely examines
community education materials in a language rarely examined by discourse
analysts, but which is nevertheless spoken by around a fifth of the world's
population and constitutes an important 'minority' language throughout the
Western world. The book identifies the discursive features that
characterise the Chinese-language texts and analyses them cross-culturally,
highlighting the impact of cultural traditions, political systems and
dominant conceptions of society. These insights into how Chinese-language
community health pamphlets and handbooks are positioned to shape the minds
of readers will engage both discourse analysts and mental health
professionals providing services to Chinese-speaking communities across the
globe.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                            Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Written In: English (eng )

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