Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1: Applied linguistics and health/medical education
6. Chapter 1 Functional linguistics and health professions education: An exploration of individual and group reflection processes 19
7. Chapter 2 From cultural competence to discourse competence: Discourse analysis and the education of bi/multilingual health care professionals 57
8. Section 2: Applied linguistics, translation, and health
9. Chapter 3 Children learning about dementia in Taiwan: Using gist translations to clarify adult opinions 85
10. Chapter 4 Research translation as situated practice 117
11. Section 3: Applied linguistics and public health
12. Chapter 5 Modality and interpretative spaces in policies 141
13. Chapter 6 Discourses at work in elderly, health policy communication: Uncovering aspects of semantic preference and prosody in the rural opioid epidemic 169
14. Chapter 7 Responding to crisis, responding to needs: Older adults seeking medical care in the aftermath of storms 193
15. Section 4: Applied linguistics and health interventions
16. Chapter 8 Beyond “Limited English Proficient” in health care policy, practice, and programs 223
17. Chapter 9 Designing health interventions on transdisciplinary research teams: Contributions of LSI scholarship 247
18. Conclusion 275
19. Contributor information 291
20. Index 295