Tag: linguistics
Communication in Healthcare
I’ve been interested in language and linguistics since I was a teenager, probably stemming from a trip to Europe when I was fourteen and seeing how words in different languages were similar to and different from each other. I’ve also purchased and read too many books on the history and evolution of the English language. […]
Pandemic Messaging: Words Matter
I read an article a few days ago about how using certain words can get messages about the pandemic more effectively than others. You can read the article from Axios here. It shows striking contrasts between “words used” and “words we should have used”. The “actors” in this study are the people giving the messages, […]
