Language and HIV/AIDS.
Title:
Language and HIV/AIDS.
Author:
Higgins, Christina.
ISBN:
9781847692214
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Series:
Critical Language and Literacy Studies, No. 5 ; v.No. 5
Critical Language and Literacy Studies, No. 5
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction Applied Linguistics, Local Knowledge and HIV/AIDS -- Chapter 1 Lengths of Life: Stories of Being with HIV -- Chapter 2 Ugandan Students' Visual Representations of Health Literacies: A Focus on HIV/AIDS Knowledge -- Chapter 3 Is it Safer to Talk about Sex in Spanish or English? Performing Young Adulthood in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Chapter 4 Safe Sex - Not So Straightforward: Intersubjective Positioning in Gay Men's Accounts of Sexual Exposure to HIV -- Chapter 5 Dangerous Dogmas: AIDS, Discourse and the Rakhel System in India -- Chapter 6 Discursive Constructions of Responsibility in HIV/AIDS Prevention: Re-entextualization Practices in Tanzania -- Chapter 7 Uganda's ABC Program on HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Discursive Site of Struggle -- Chapter 8 Learning about AIDS Online: Identity and Expertise on a Gay Internet Forum -- Chapter 9 Contextualizing Local Knowledge: Reformulations in HIV/AIDS Prevention in Burkina Faso -- Chapter 10 What Difference Does This Make? Studying Southern African Youth as Knowledge Producers within a New Literacy of HIV and AIDS -- Chapter 11 Articulations of Knowing: NGOs and HIV-Positive Health in India -- Chapter 12 Signs Show the Way: Reading HIV Prevention on the Andaman Islands -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Focuses on the role of language in the construction of knowledge about HIV/AIDS in diverse regions of the world. This title draws on various forms of discourse analysis, ethnography, and social semiotics to interpret meaning-making practices in HIV/AIDS education in Australia, Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Hong Kong, India, South Africa and Tanzania.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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