Dr Zsófia Demjén, @zsofiademjen.bsky.social

🗓️Save the date! On 11-12 September 2025, Lancaster University is hosting the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH). We hope to see you there! For more information, see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

In a recent study Professors @elenasemino, @steve_flusberg, and Mackey explored metaphors' impact on understanding #vaccinations. The castle metaphor, among the top performers, illustrates how #vaccines work. Watch our animation to find out more: bit.ly/49nEvjX

The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis) is freely available online, and can now be downloaded from the @UKDataService’s ReShare repository. You can find it here: reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856736/

On Sylvia Plath's birthday, Meryl Streep reads her stunning "Morning Song" themarginalian.org/2018/04/04/mer…

Our @UCLMentalHealth Special Interest Group (SIG) in #SelfHarm & #Suicide launched today. It was great to meet so many @ucl researchers interested in collaborating on these important clinical & public health topics @ProfTonyDavid @KiwiRowebot @GemmaLewis13 ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/…

New open access paper from @vaccine_project in Discourse & Society. We've talked about this at conferences & now it's officially out: “Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Spotted a familiar title top left :) Thanks @BloomsburyLing Many of the chapters are co-authored with clinicians and all are focused on making linguistic analysis relevant and applicable to healthcare practice 35% is a good discount too #healthcommunication

Are developing or delivering a course on language & health or health communication? Or are you perhaps new to research in these fields? Are you a student writing a dissertation on topics related to language & health and are not sure where to start? One place to begin might be:

@TaliaIsaacs Thank you, Talia!

@ZsofiaDemjen Wow, congratulations!

Look what happened while I was on holiday :) There is also a 20% discount with code: ESA32

@GavinBrookes26 Amazing news, Gavin! really well done!

And there is a discount code too

Will be in paperback immediately

New book by Sarah Atkins, @elenasemino and myself out next month. Researching Language and Health - a guide for student researchers and those new to the health domain. routledge.com/Researching-La…