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  • Elasticity in Healthcare Communication

    A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Grace Qiao Zhang, Ming-Yu Tseng ...
    Elastic language is a phenomenon in linguistics that refers to how we stretch the meanings of words, depending on the context in which they are used – for example many, about 20, perhaps, could be. This study looks specifically at elastic language in the fields of medicine and healthcare, showing how it is used to serve both the patient's and the professional's needs. It explores the pragmatics ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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  • Care & Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children

    by MCLEOD, Sharynne, GOLDSTEIN, Brian A. ...
    Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children translates research into clinical practice for speech-language pathologists working with children. The book explores both multilingual and multicultural aspects of children with speech sound disorders. The 30 theoretical and clinical chapters have been written by 44 authors from 16 different countries about 112 languages and dialects. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • English in Medical Education

    An Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values

    by Dr. Peih-ying Lu, Prof. John Corbett ...
    Series Book 24 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. In both fields, there have been methodological shifts towards 'task-based' and 'problem-based learning'. In addition, both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. English in Medical Education responds to these changes by re-imagining the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education

    A Contemporary Guide to Literacy Teaching and Interventions in a Global Context

    Edited by Natalia Kucirkova, Catherine E. Snow, Vibeke Grøver, Catherine McBride ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks of Education
    The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education offers a pioneering overview of early literacy provision in different parts of the world and brings together interdisciplinary research evidence on effective literacy teaching to inform current and future practice and policy of early literacy. From the problem of identification of literacy difficulties in a particular learning ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

    Building on Experience

    Edited by Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Dr. Rubén Chacón-Beltrán ...
    Series Book 94 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional in its coverage of current bilingual initiatives. The central themes of this volume, which draws on ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Edited by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá ...
    Series Book 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Medical Translation Step by Step

    Learning by Drafting

    by Vicent Montalt, Maria González-Davies ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Statistics on the translation market consistently identify medicine as a major thematic area as far as volume or translation is concerned. Vicent Montalt and Maria Gonzalez Davis, both experienced translator trainers at Spanish universities, explain the basics of medical translation and ways of teaching and learning how to translate medical texts.Medical Translation Step by Step provides a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Culture and the Individual

    Theory and Method of Cultural Consonance

    by William W Dressler ...
    Series series Key Questions in Anthropology
    Winner of the 2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Book PrizeThis book engages with the issue of how culture is incorporated into individuals' lives, a question that has long plagued the social sciences. Starting with a critical overview of the treatment of culture and the individual in anthropology, the author makes the case for adopting a cognitive theory of culture in researching the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

    Edited by Nelya Koteyko, Kevin Harvey, Daniel Hunt, Gavin Brookes ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications.The Handbook is divided into three sections:Individuals’ everyday health communicationHealth professionals’ communicative practicesPatient-provider ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Research

    Edited by Cheryl Tatano Beck ...
    Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice. Divided into four parts, this authoritative handbook contains over forty chapters on the state of the art and science of qualitative research in nursing.The first part begins by addressing the significance of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Content and Language Integrated Learning

    Evidence from Research in Europe

    Edited by Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe, Dr. Rosa María Jiménez Catalán ...
    Series Book 41 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book contributes to the growth of interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an approach to second/foreign language learning that requires the use of the target language to learn content. Within the framework of European strategies to promote multilingualism, CLIL has begun to be used extensively in a variety of language learning contexts, and at different educational ... Read more

    $23.79 USD