87, 8/2017
Language and Health Online
Editors of this special issue:
Miriam A. Locher and Franziska Thurnherr
Herausgeberin (V.i.S.d.P.)/editor-in-chief:
Elke Hentschel Universität Bern www.linguistik-online.org
ISSN 1615-3014 CC by 3.0
87, 8/2017
ISSN 1615-3014
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Table of contents
Miriam A. Locher and Franziska Thurnherr (Basel):
Typing yourself healthy: Introduction to the special issue on language and health online ... 3 Loukia Lindholm (Turku):
“So now I’m panic attack free!”: Response stories in a peer-to-peer online advice forum on pregnancy and parenting ... 25 Elisabeth Muth Andersen (Odense):
Typing yourself accountable: Objectifying subjective experiences in an online health forum ... 43 Antoinette Fage-Butler (Aarhus):
Hub of medical expertise or medicalised conveyor-belt? Sharing meanings online on the hospital birth setting ... 69 Marie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr (Basel):
“If you start again, don’t worry. You haven’t failed”. Relapse talk and motivation in online smoking cessation ... 87 Elizabeth Sillence (Newcastle upon Tyne):
Having faith in the online voice. Exploring contemporary issues of trust, language and advice in the context of e-health ... 107 Nadine Chariatte (Cape Town):
HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Graphic signs countering the stigma and silence ... 127 Leslie E. Cochrane (Williamsburg):
An imagined community of practice: Online discourse among wheelchair users ... 151 Najma Al Zidjaly (Maskat):
Mental health and Islamic religion online: An intertextual analysis ... 167 Margot Jager (Groningen) and Wyke Stommel (Nijmegen):
The risk of metacommunication to manage interactional trouble in online chat counseling . 191 Franziska Thurnherr (Basel):
“As it’s our last exchange next time…”. The closure initiation in email counseling ... 213 Information about the authors ... 237
