36.3784, Books: Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Pun and Chan (2025)

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Subject: 36.3784, Books: Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Pun and Chan (2025)

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Date: 09-Dec-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Pun and Chan (2025)


Title: Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia
Subtitle: Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians’ Voices in
the Chinese Context
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Healthcare
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/exploring-clinical-communication-in-asia-9781350298118/

Author(s): Jack Pun & Audrey Chan

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350298118, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers
a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in
clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a
communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and
medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations
for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical
research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book
addresses topics of interest to researchers in health communication
and applied linguistics more broadly. It also provides healthcare
professionals with the resources necessary for a critical reflection
of their professional practice. The book makes use of data gathered
through a variety of methods, including audio and video recordings of
clinician-patient communication, semi-structured interviews, and
ethnographic observations. It also uses a cross-disciplinary approach,
combining the expertise of linguists, clinicians and health
communication researchers, to identify communication features of
effective and ineffective interactions, focusing on the communication
breakdowns and vulnerable points which jeopardize the quality and
safety of the patient experience.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics




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