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Book: Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age

Chapter: 7. The Construal of Terminal Illness in Online Medical Texts: Social Distance and Semantic Space

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.26114

Blurb:

This paper is concerned with the lexicogrammar of death and life, focusing in particular on the language used in online medical information on the prognosis of diseases. In it, I discuss some work on the language of living and dying and raise questions about how social context influences the construal of sensitive human experiences.

Chapter Contributors

  • Meriel Bloor ([email protected] - mbloor) 'University of Warwick Centre of Applied Linguistics'