35.653, Calls: Expert and Lay Voices in Online Health Communication

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-653. Sun Feb 25 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.653, Calls: Expert and Lay Voices in Online Health Communication

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Date: 24-Feb-2024
From: Anna Tereszkiewicz [anna.tereszkiewicz at gmail.com]
Subject: Expert and Lay Voices in Online Health Communication


Full Title: Expert and Lay Voices in Online Health Communication

Date: 24-Apr-2024 - 24-Apr-2024
Location: online, Poland
Contact Person: Anna Tereszkiewicz
Meeting Email: anna.tereszkiewicz at gmail.com
Web Site: https://ifa.filg.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/the-institute/research-and-
conferences/projects/hks-en

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

The evolution of online media has led to the emergence of novel
discursive practices in health communication, enabling less
hierarchical dissemination of medical knowledge and health
information. The ongoing democratization of medical knowledge has
resulted in greater accessibility of medical information and,
consequently, a significant increase in laypersons’ health awareness
and health knowledge. The new practices have, too, affected the
hitherto unchallenged asymmetry between medical experts, on the one
hand, and patients, on the other, contributing to the occurrence of
new dialogic practices in both lay-lay and lay-expert encounters.

Against this background, we wish to bring together researchers
exploring various facets of online health communication, with a
particular focus on expert and lay interaction practices. Suggested
areas of scholarly discussion include, but are not limited to, the
following:
•       Expert voices in online health communication
•       Lay voices in online health communication
•       Expert-lay interaction in online health communication
•       Management of epistemic dynamics in online health
communication
•       Conceptualisation of ‘medical expertise’ and ‘lay medical
expertise’
•       Health knowledge formation and dissemination in online
contexts
•       (Un)certainty of medical knowledge
•       Textual and multimodal identity creation in online health
communication
•       Cross-linguistic differences in online lay and expert health
communication practices
Diverse research perspectives are welcome, including discourse
analysis, conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, media
and communication studies, multimodality, social semiotics, psychology
and social anthropology.

The seminar will take place on MS Teams.
There is no fee to participate.

Call for Papers:

If you would like to participate in the seminar, please submit your
proposals for 20-minute papers (app. 200 words) together with short
bionotes (up to 100 words) via email to Anna Tereszkiewicz at
anna.tereszkiewicz(at)gmail.com



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