This study offers a multimodal discourse analytic description of online self-care communication as a dynamic and strategic medium for engaging people in their health. It does so by looking at the linguistic and visual resources used across Web-mediated texts, uncovering the potential meanings created for the social activities and purposes behind those resources. The paper breaks down as follows. First, the empirical material for corpus-driven analysis is indicated and the research method outlined. Secondly, the key findings of empirical data are analysed and discussed and, thirdly, tentative conclusions are drawn from contextualized material.
Empowering patients to self-care in web-mediated communication: A multimodal discourse analysis
TESSUTO, Girolamo
2015
Abstract
This study offers a multimodal discourse analytic description of online self-care communication as a dynamic and strategic medium for engaging people in their health. It does so by looking at the linguistic and visual resources used across Web-mediated texts, uncovering the potential meanings created for the social activities and purposes behind those resources. The paper breaks down as follows. First, the empirical material for corpus-driven analysis is indicated and the research method outlined. Secondly, the key findings of empirical data are analysed and discussed and, thirdly, tentative conclusions are drawn from contextualized material.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
