Language and HIV/AIDS ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Higgins   Christina;Norton   Prof. Bonny  

Publisher： Channel View Publications‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781847692214

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781847692191

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781847692191

Subject： C91 Sociology;G4 Education;R1 Preventive Medicine , Health

Keyword： 教育

Language： ENG

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Description

This volume focuses on the role of language in the construction of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The authors draw on discourse analysis, ethnography, and social semiotics to interpret meaning-making practices in formal and informal HIV/AIDS education in Australia, Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, and Uganda.

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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

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