Ying Jin

The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book integrates perspectives from Conversation Analysis and discursive psychology to shed light on doctor-patient communication in asynchronous web-based interactions through the lens of the discourse of comfort.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781032786728
• ISBN-10: 1032786728
• Artikelnr.: 73777576

Autorenporträt

Ying Jin is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards an interactional understanding of
comforting and online healthcare
Chapter 2 Preliminaries and methodology
Chapter 3 "This is quite common": Normalizing and reassuring
Chapter 4 Showing compassion
Chapter 5 Rendering bad news bivalent
Chapter 6 Resistance to comfort and its management
Chapter 7 Summary, emergent themes and future directions
Index