International Health Humanities Network Membership

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Zsófia Demjén is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at University College London, Institute of Education. Her research areas include health communication, medical humanities and illness discourse, specifically depression, schizophrenia, and cancer, and her methods include discourse analysis, corpus analysis, stylistics, and metaphor analysis. Zsófia aims to develop new understandings of how linguistic choices can be: vehicles for expressing the lived experience of illness; symptomatic of mental disorders; sources of evidence of attitudes towards health(care); and tools for community-building among people with similar conditions. In addition, she is interested in intercultural and professional communication, as well as language creativity. She has published in theMedical Humanities among othersSylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression (2015, Bloomsbury) and co-editor of

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