This collection explores the changing nature of health discourse in different digital environments. It offers sustained discourse analyses of a number of interactions generated through the affordances and constraints of these new social contexts, which are affecting health communication in subtle and profound ways.
Anna Franca Plastina is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Pharmacy and Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Calabria, Italy. Her research focus is specialised discourse in computer-mediated, LSP, and multilingual contexts with associated interests in genre, multimodal, psycholinguistic, and corpus-assisted critical discourse analyses. She has published extensively in these research areas at both national and international levels.
