19.3726, Books: Discourse Analysis/Applied Ling: Ramsay

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Title: Shaping Minds 
Subtitle: A discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature
 
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture   32  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC%2032 


Author: Guy Ramsay

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027290830 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027290830 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206206 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206206 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00


Abstract:

Mental illness is an increasing concern of government health services
across the globe. It is timely, therefore, that community education about
mental illness is subject to discourse analysis. <i>Shaping Minds</i>
explores how the psychoeducational message is presented to Chinese-speaking
audiences in China, Taiwan and Australia. The book uniquely examines
community education materials in a language rarely examined by discourse
analysts, but which is nevertheless spoken by around a fifth of the world's
population and constitutes an important 'minority' language throughout the
Western world. The book identifies the discursive features that
characterise the Chinese-language texts and analyses them cross-culturally,
highlighting the impact of cultural traditions, political systems and
dominant conceptions of society. These insights into how Chinese-language
community health pamphlets and handbooks are positioned to shape the minds
of readers will engage both discourse analysts and mental health
professionals providing services to Chinese-speaking communities across the
globe. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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