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25 - Language and Medicine

from Part III - SFL in Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2019

By
Alison Rotha Moore
Edited by
Geoff Thompson ,
Wendy L. Bowcher ,
Lise Fontaine  and
David Schönthal
Geoff Thompson
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
Wendy L. Bowcher
Affiliation:
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Lise Fontaine
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
David Schönthal
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Summary

This chapter profiles the contribution of Systemic Functional Linguistics to the study of language and medicine from early in the history of SFL to the present. It outlines the health problems and settings on which such studies have focused, summarizes pertinent findings, reviews the theoretical and descriptive tools used, and considers how the role of language in healthcare has been conceptualised. A brief research example is given, from a study of genetic counselling for women with a family history of breast cancer, which combines contextual, semantic, and multimodal text analysis to account for unexpected overestimation of cancer risk among women who were provided with expert counselling. The chapter argues that SFL has generated a significant body of work around language and medicine, with some important impacts on theory and practice, but there is scope for this field to develop into a more prominent and strategic application of Systemic Functional Linguistics that makes a substantial contribution to improving health and healthcare. Crucial to such a goal are enhanced co-ordination between research groups and a broader conception of how discourse and health are related.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics , pp. 651 - 689
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