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43528-01 - Practical course: Language and Health Online. Typing yourself healthy (1 CP)

Semester spring semester 2016
Course frequency Once only
Lecturers Miriam Locher (miriam.locher@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content The SNF-project team "Language and Health Online" is organizing a two-day symposium: "Language and Health Online. Typing yourself healthy", April 15-16, 2016, University of Basel, Switzerland.
In the last decades the Internet has evolved to become an important source of information for health concerns. There are many professional information sites, peer-support sites for patients, mailing lists, online counselling services, and so on. In these contexts, language plays a central role in how health issues are communicated and how health-related activities such as shared decision-making, collaboration, or persuasion, are carried out. Internet users are encouraged to type themselves healthy through language with the help of peers or professionals.

Covering a broad range from mental and medical health issues to healthy life style concerns, the symposium aims to explore how language is used in e-health practices:

- To construct the patient-doctor/client-therapist relationship
- To persuade users of healthy lifestyle changes
- To give support among peers (e.g. in online support groups)
- To establish trust in peer-to-peer and in professional-lay contexts
- To create expertise by lay people and professionals
- To talk about specific illnesses and health risks
- To adapt content and language for target groups (kids, teenagers, adults, particular conditions, etc.)

Invited keynote speakers:
Nelya Koteyko, Queen Mary University London (confirmed)
Wyke Stommel, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (confirmed)
Elizabeth Sillence, Northumbria University Newcastle (confirmed)

The symposium provides a platform for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines such as linguistics, psychology and anthropology, as well as the public to share findings and insights concerning e-health communication. By engaging in a dialogue with researchers from different fields we work towards a better understanding of e-health practices overall, which can be of use and interest to health practitioners as well. This symposium is going to be the endpoint of the SNF-funded research project "Language and Health Online" (NGK1912).

As an additional option, students are strongly recommended to also take the lecture on "Language and health" (43530-01) as a perfect exposure to theoretical background and recent empirical findings.
Learning objectives Students will gain an understanding of the importance of the use of language in health communication in computer-mediated practices. Attending the conference is an opportunity to see and participate in the discussion of cutting edge research in this vibrant field.
Bibliography For further background reading, you can register in OLAT for the lecture "Language and health" (43530-01) in order to obtain pdfs of texts and a reader of the lecture.
Weblink OLAT

 

Admission requirements None
Course application For organizational purposes, please register for this event in MONA as well as in OLAT: https://www.olat.uzh.ch/olat/url/RepositoryEntry/14301822976
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media Online, mandatory

 

Interval Weekday Time Room

No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.

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Modul Advanced English Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English)
Modul English Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English)
Modul English Sociolinguistics & Cognitive Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013))
Modul Environment and Human Well-Being (Master's degree program: African Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013))
Modul Extending the View (Linguistics) (Bachelor's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013))
Modul Fields: Public Health and Social Life (Master's degree program: African Studies)
Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Linguistics) (Bachelor's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013))
Modul Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master's degree program: Language and Communication)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: English)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: German Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: French Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Nordic Philology)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology)
Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology)
Modul Refining Skills in Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013))
Assessment format continuous assessment
Assessment details Written exam: Students will have to discuss and compare several of the presentations that they attended during the two days of the lecture.
Assessment registration/deregistration Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required
Repeat examination no repeat examination
Scale Pass / Fail
Repeated registration no repetition
Responsible faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Offered by Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

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