Our Department is pleased to announce the publication of The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations by Dr Blair Jin. Published by Routledge, this innovative monograph integrates conversation analysis and discursive psychology to examine how doctors and patients co-construct emotional support and collaborative problem-solving in asynchronous text-based consultations.
Using a large corpus collected through Python-based data scraping, Dr Jin sheds new light on the distinctive interactional practices of online medical encounters and the broader implications of digital mediation for health communication.
The book is essential reading for researchers and students in conversation analysis, health communication, pragmatics, discursive psychology, and the study of language and technology in healthcare contexts.
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