Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse

dc.contributor.author	Stvan, Laurel Smith
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-16T23:28:07Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-16T23:28:07Z
dc.date.issued	2013-06-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24276
dc.description	Poster presented at the JPS 7th Annual Research Forum on June 7, 2013	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ordinariness of the words – leads to aspects of lexical misinterpretation remaining understudied. Lay terms with multiple senses are studied here to determine effects on misunderstanding of causality in health discussions.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Health discourse	en_US
dc.subject	Vernacular terms	en_US
dc.subject	Lay terms	en_US
dc.subject	Causation	en_US
dc.title	Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US
dc.publisher.department	Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington	en_US