Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Language and Dialogue
Volume Number: 14
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 30/08/2024

Subtitle: Special Issue: Online Health Communication Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices

Main Text:

2024. vi, 200 pp.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Online health communication: Expert and lay dialogic practices
Anna Tereszkiewicz & Magdalena Szczyrbak | pp. 171–182

Articles

Social identity construction in expert-lay dialogue on Facebook
Anna Tereszkiewicz | pp. 183–213

Please explain what this diagnosis means because I don’t quite understand : Patients seeking medical expertise and support in online dialogue to deconstruct hospital discharge documents
Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak & Magdalena Zabielska | pp. 214–238

Conflict resolution in online mental health support groups: The role of empathy and informal mediation
Carolina Figueras Bates | pp. 239–267

Experto crede : Patient knowledge formation in health communities on Facebook
Magdalena Szczyrbak | pp. 268–296

‘The benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks… they say’: Italian Facebook users’ comments on the AstraZeneca vaccine suspension
Ilaria Riccioni, Alessia Bertolazzi & Ramona Bongelli | pp. 297–331

Viral peer advice: Health memes used as the speech act of advising in English
Laurel Smith Stvan | pp. 332–370

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics