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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Language and HIV/Aids. Bristol, UK ; uffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, ©2010 (DLC) 2009033460 (OCoLC)430736624 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christina Higgins; Bonny Norton |
ISBN: | 9781847692214 1847692214 |
OCLC Number: | 593273841 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | Lengths of life : stories of being with HIV / William Savage -- Ugandan students' visual representations of health literacies : a focus on HIV/AIDS knowledge / Harriet Mutonyi and Maureen E. Kendrick -- Is it safer to talk about sex in Spanish or English? : performing young adulthood in Oaxaca, Mexico / Ángeles Clemente and Michael J. Higgins -- Safe sex, not so straightforward : intersubjective positioning in gay men's accounts of sexual exposure to HIV / Henrike Körner -- Dangerous dogmas : AIDS, discourse and the rakhel system in India / Noushin Khushrushahi -- Discursive constructions of responsibility in HIV/AIDS prevention : re-entextualization practices in Tanzania / Christina Higgins -- Uganda's ABC program on HIV/AIDS prevention : a discursive site of struggle / Shelley Jones and Bonny Norton -- Learning about AIDS online : identity and expertise on a gay Internet forum / Rodney H. Jones -- Contextualizing local knowledge : reformulations in HIV/AIDS prevention in Burkina Faso / Martina Drescher -- What difference does this make? : studying southern African youth as well as knowledge producers within a new literacy of HIV and AIDS / Claudia Mitchell [and others] -- Articulations of knowing : NGOs and HIV-positive health in India / Mark Finn and Srikant Sarangi -- Signs show the way : reading HIV prevention on the Andaman Islands / Annabelle Mooney. |
Series Title: | Critical language and literacy studies. |
Responsibility: | edited by Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton. |
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The discourses and levels of analysis in the book provide linguists and researchers in communication studies with a fresh glimpse into strategies in interpersonal, inter-group and official communication not only in offline face-to-face contexts but also in computer-mediated situations. This book is therefore a good companion for students and researchers interested in linguistic and communicative aspects of HIV/AIDS discourses. -- Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany * Discourse & Communication 6(1), 2012 * This important volume initiates a necessary dialogue exploring the interrelationship between complex social issues that sit at the crux of policy, practice, development, health care, education, and medicine. The book presents a geographically, contextually, and methodologically diverse contribution to research on language and HIV/AIDS - one that is sensitive, complicated, valuable, and thought-provoking. -- Maureen T. Matarese, City University of New York, USA * Discourse Studies, 13(3) 381-392, 2011 * Applied linguistics doesn't get better than this. -- Gael Fonken, St Cloud State University * Applied Linguistics (2010), First published online: December 8, 2010 * While the existence of HIV/AIDS is sadly a global phenomenon, its significance is always local, personal, constructed and mediated through diverse networks both professional and intimate. Communication is central to these processes, yet too little attention has been paid as yet by researchers in applied linguistics to our understanding of both the disease and the workings of the networks themselves. This well-edited and coherent book takes up this challenge as its central motivation. Its diversity of authorship, site and focus will both greatly enhance our understanding of HIV/AIDS and further underscore the essential applied linguistic goal of ensuring practical relevance in its research. -- Christopher N Candlin, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton have brought together a remarkably diverse group of scholars who focus on the intersection of language and HIV/AIDS. The result is a stunningly vibrant volume, one that brims with insights based on qualitative analyses of a variety of public and private discourses from around the globe. _Language and HIV/AIDS_ is an outstanding example of the power of applied linguistics to illuminate critical real-world issues. A true treasure! -- Heidi Hamilton, Georgetown University, USA Read more...


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- HIV Infections -- prevention & control.
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