readings and resources
Key readings will be uploaded here under each week, by importance to read. Apart from Week 1, more readings will be uploaded soon so please check back later. I will also upload a Reading List document soon.
Week 1 – Health, health care, and health discourse: What can the fields of health and social semiotics offer each other? Please print readings 1 and 2 below and bring to class - read them beforehand if you can but if there’s no time to pre-read this week just come along anyway!
Halliday (1999) Grammar of pain
Halliday & Hasan (1985) Language, Context and Text Ch 4
Harvey&Koteyko (2012) Exploring Health Communication Ch 1
Moore (2019) Language & Medicine - Read Sections 25.1-25.2.2.5
Week 2 – Patients talking to clinicians: focusing on doctors and patients enacting and negotiating role relationships
Thompson (1999) Acting the part
Thwaite (2015) MDA d-p interaction
Moore (2015) Message semantics & Questions in palliative care
Hasan et al. (2007) Semantic Networks
Week 3 – Patients talking to clinicians part 2: Guest lecture from Dr Neda Karimi - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Neda_Karimi. We’ll focus on experiential issues this week and Neda will walk us through how she did a transitivity concordance in her study on palliative oncology.
Karimi et al (2018) transitivity concordance in advanced cancer
Matthiessen (2013) Applying SFL to healthcare
Exercises on semantic networks and palliative care data
Alison’s slides Weeks 2-3 including some palliative care exercise answers
Week 4 – Broadening the clinical setting: other clinicians, families
Moore (2019) Language & Medicine - Read Sections 25.2.2.6 - 25.2.2.8
Slade et al (2008) Emergency Dept interaction
Week 5 – Broadening the clinical setting part 2: interaction in mental health contexts
Week 6 – Mediating clinical interaction: healthcare interpreting and medical education
Week 7 – NO CLASS 10 APRIL
Recess – NO CLASS 17 APRIL
Week 8 – Mediating clinical interaction part 2: written & online information to support quality use of medicines
Week 9 – Mediating clinical interaction part 3: decision aids and social media
Week 10 – Mediating clinical interaction part 4: interaction within surgical and other hospital teams
Week 11 – Institution – and system-wide issues: cultures of risk and safety in the organisational and built environment
Week 12 – Health beyond the health system: cultural, legal, and economic drivers of health and contested notions of health
Week 13 – Q&A
[Thwaite video] (/Doctor Patient LIC.mov]