Shaping Minds: A Discourse Analysis of Chinese-language Community Mental Health Literature (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society & Culture)

Mental Illness Is An Increasing Concern Of Government Health Services Across The Globe. It Is Timely, Therefore, That Community Education About Mental Illness Is Subject To Discourse Analysis. Shaping Minds Explores How The Psychoeducational Message Is Presented To Chinese-speaking Audiences In China, Taiwan And Australia. The Book Uniquely Examines Community Education Materials In A Language Rarely Examined By Discourse Analysts, But Which Is Nevertheless Spoken By Around A Fifth Of The World's Population And Constitutes An Important 'minority' Language Throughout The Western World. The Book Identifies The Discursive Features That Characterise The Chinese-language Texts And Analyses Them Cross-culturally, Highlighting The Impact Of Cultural Traditions, Political Systems And Dominant Conceptions Of Society. These Insights Into How Chinese-language Community Health Pamphlets And Handbooks Are Positioned To Shape The Minds Of Readers Will Engage Both Discourse Analysts And Mental Health Professionals Providing Services To Chinese-speaking Communities Across The Globe. --book Jacket. Guy Ramsay. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [137]-146) And Index. Shaping Minds......Page 2 Editorial page ......Page 3 Title page ......Page 4 LCC data ......Page 5 Dedication ......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Folk versus biomedical understandings......Page 12 Objectives of the study......Page 15 Communication across cultures......Page 16 Culture and public health communication......Page 19 'Explanatory models' of health and illness......Page 21 Shaping minds......Page 23 2. Chinese cultural explanatory models of mental illness......Page 28 Traditional conceptions of mental illness in China......Page 29 Conceptions of mental illness in modern China (1912-1949)......Page 35 China......Page 38 Taiwan......Page 44 Migrant Chinese settings......Page 45 Chinese cultural explanatory models and community psychoeducation......Page 47 A discourse analytic approach......Page 50 Discursive hybridity......Page 54 The professional voice of medicine......Page 56 The institutional voice......Page 59 The client-centred voice......Page 62 A discourse analysis of Chinese-language psychoeducational literature......Page 65 4. A discourse analysis of Chinese-language psychoeducational literature......Page 68 Rhetorical Structure Theory......Page 69 Sample analysis of psychoeducational texts......Page 76 Evaluation of text discursive form......Page 91 Analytic findings for mainland Chinese psychoeducational literature......Page 97 Analytic findings for the Taiwanese psychoeducational literature......Page 105 Analytic findings for the Australian Chinese-language psychoeducational literature......Page 111 5. Shaping minds......Page 120 Shaping minds in mainland Chinese and Taiwanese psychoeducational literature......Page 121 Shaping minds in Australian Chinese-language psychoeducational literature......Page 123 Shaping minds across the Chinese diaspora......Page 126 Communicating mental illness......Page 135 6. Conclusion......Page 138 Bibliography......Page 148 Index......Page 158 The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture......Page 162