Overview

An essential reference to the intersection of language and death and dying, this book presents an overview of the methodologies, current debates, history and future of research in language-related death studies. Adopting a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book explores a wide variety of phenomena and contexts of death and dying, examining language and discourse from linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives, among others. Divided into three parts, it considers three viewpoints from which death and dying can be understood: first-person, second-person, and third-person. The chapters cover an extensive array of topics, from presentations of death within social media and news reports, through to specific contexts of dying and types of death, including palliative care, assisted dying, suicide, and COVID-19. They also engage with data from across a range of national, cultural, and linguistic contexts, offering a broad international perspective.

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Author:   Prof Dariusz Galasinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) ,  Dr Justyna Ziólkowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350302013

ISBN 10:   1350302015
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Introduction, Justyna Ziólkowska (SWPS University, Poland), Dariusz Galasinski (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and Magdalena Witkowicz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Part I: Personal Experiences of Death 1. The Good Death, Alex Broom, Nadine Ehlers, Henrietta Byrne, Leah Williams Veazey and Katherine Kenny (University of Sydney, Australia) 2. The Identification of Linguistic Markers of Suicidal Ideation on Social Media: Computational and Corpus Approaches, Andrea Vaughan (University College London, UK) 3. “There Are no Words”: Designating Infant Loss through the Lens of Situated Discourse Analysis, Giuditta Caliendo and Catherine Ruchon (University of Lille, France) 4. The Sociolinguistics of Dying, Death and Mourning: Remediating Practices of Language, Narrative, and Affect in Digital Contexts, Korina Giaxoglou (Open University, UK) 5. Medicalisation of Death in COVID-19 Memorials, Dariusz Galasinski (University of Wroclaw, Poland), Magdalena Witkowicz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and Justyna Ziólkowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland) 6. Corpse Poetry, Dead Bodies and Linguistic Survival, Katrina Jaworski (University of South Australia, Australia) and Daniel G. Scott (University of Victoria, Canada) Part II: Death from a Professional Perspective 7. Communicating Death in Intensive Care: The Impact of Prior Family Interactions on Breaking the News, Ana Cristina Ostermann (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil), Paola Gabriela Konrad (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil) and José Roberto Goldim (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Brazil) 8. Psychiatrists, Suicide and Clinical Communication, Rob Poole (Bangor University, UK) 9. Medicalised or Criminalised? Gendered Constructions of Killers Within Legal and Psychiatric Narratives, Agnieszka Karlinska (NASK National Research Institute, Poland) 10. Telling of Killing: The Discursive Construction of Morality in Accounts of Taking Life, Robin Conley Riner (Marshall University, USA) 11. Discursive Perspectives on Assisted Dying, Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) and David Wright (University of Southampton, UK) 12. Assisted Dying: Mapping the Terrain, Jessica Young (University of Otago, New Zealand), Bryanna Moore (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA) and Courtney Hempton (Deakin University, Australia) 13. The Language of Suicide, David Lester (Stockton University, USA) Part III: Public Representations of Death 14. Death and the Sacred in the Digital Age, Adela Toplean (University of Bucharest, Romania) 15. Talking about Death to Young Children: The Metaphorical Representation of Death in Children’s Literature, Sara Vilar-Lluch (King’s College London, UK) 16. Death in the News: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis, Rakan Alibri (Lancaster University, UK) 17. Dementia, Death and Discourse, Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) 18. Intersecting Discourses of Death and the Climate Crisis, Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 19. Freezing Death: Cryopreservation as a Challenge to the Inevitability of Death, Kim Grego (University of Milan, Italy) Index

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Dariusz Galasinski is Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. Justyna Ziólkowska is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland.

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