What am I deciding on?
I was pointed to a decision aid. It’s about treatment options in depression. I think it’s very good. I also think that it requires a look from a linguist. Here it is. Continue reading “What am I deciding on?”
Stop telling me what words to use
Almost every day on I see references to how to talk about mental health. All of them are written with the best intentions, for a linguist most of them are quite problematic. The other day I saw the Ten Commandments for how to talk about mental health. And given how authoritative the title of the statement is, I thought it was time to react. And so, here is the linguist’s take on how to talk about mental health.
Why I asked why there were no women on a panel
Last week I tweeted that at a conference I challenged the chair of a plenary panel with a question why there were no women on it. Here is what happened and an account for my challenge.
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Let’s sit in silence
As I analyse the way doctors and patients communicate, I tend to focus on the linguistic form, sometimes on the content. That’s discourse analysis. But today I want to leave all these things. And I want to write about silence. Continue reading “Let’s sit in silence”