An overview of emphases in research on health discourse identifies a number of threads
including discussions of provider-patient interactions (PPI) over the last thirty years, with …

Background Despite an expansive literature on communication in medicine, the role of
language is dealt with mostly indirectly. Recently, narrative medicine has emerged as a …

Since the 1970s, doctor–patient communication has become increasingly well established
as an area of inquiry within sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, initially focusing, in …

Canada, like other first-world countries, relies in large part on professional im-migrants
trained in other cultures and languages to complement its workforce in a wide range of …

For older people with multiple chronic co‐morbidities, strategies to coordinate care depend
heavily on information exchange. We analyse the information‐sharing difficulties arising …

A growing body of empirical research suggests that the success of health care teams can be
improved when health care professionals communicate eff ectively as they work together …

This article asserts that medical English as a lingua franca (MELF) represents an important
direction for future research in ELF. The flow of health care workers across international …

The purpose of this overview is to better define the field and boundaries of health
communication, to further delineate the role of the communication scholar, and to identify …

In 2017, EACH celebrated its change of name from European Association for
Communication in Healthcare to EACH: International Association for Communication in …

A lot has been written on language and medicine. More than one might imagine, judging by
the extent to which the research in this hybrid field–which staked its place on the Great Map …