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The Language of Patient Feedback - Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Craig Evans

The Language of Patient Feedback

A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication
Buch | Softcover
260 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33848-4 (ISBN)
CHF 74,95 inkl. MwSt
This book is the first to provide a linguistic analysis of health communication through corpus linguistics. Offering a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to health care, this book is key reading for anyone undertaking research within corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and health communciation.<
The Language of Patient Feedback provides a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to healthcare. Through the comprehensive and detailed interrogation of 29 million words of online patient feedback on the NHS in England, as well as 11 million words of responses to the feedback from NHS providers, this book:



Uses a combination of computer-assisted and human analysis (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis) to examine the extent to which characteristics like age and gender result in different types of evaluation.
Investigates why nurses, doctors, dentists and receptionists are associated with very distinct types of feedback.
Demonstrates the ways that NHS staff respond to comments and what this reveals about underlying institutional ideologies and practices.
Concludes with suggestions for key recommendations that the NHS could act upon to improve the overall level of care it provides, as well as reflecting on what patient evaluation can actually tell us.

The Language of Patient Feedback is key reading for anyone undertaking research within corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and health communication.

Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, where he is also a member of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS). He has written 16 books and is also commissioning editor of the journal Corpora (EUP). Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse studies, multimodality and health communication. Craig Evans is a student in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, where he is currently working on his PhD studying NHS patient feedback and staff responses using a corpus-based approach to discourse analysis. His interests include discourse and identity, social care and health communication.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: The NHS, patient feedback and corpus linguistics
What seems to be the trouble?: Identifying key areas of patient concern
On a scale of 1 to 5…: Comparing the rating scale with written feedback
Rude receptionists, dismissive doctors and lovely nurses: Comparing NHS providers and staff
I have been a patient with this surgery all my life: Age and evaluation
Real men don’t feel pain: Language and gendered expectations
Your feedback is important to us: Staff replies to patient feedback
Conclusion: The health of the NHS

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
Zusatzinfo 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-33848-2 / 1032338482
ISBN-13 978-1-032-33848-4 / 9781032338484
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