Language and HIV/Aids
By: edited by Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton.
Contributors: Higgins, Christina.; Norton, Bonny, 1956-
Series: Critical language and literacy studies -- 5
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781847692207; 9781847692191; 9781847692214
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Study and teaching; HIV infections -- Prevention -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: applied linguistics, local knowledge, and HIV/Aids / Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton; title: 1. Lengths of Life? Stories of Being with HIV / William Savage; title: 2. Ugandan Students? Visual Representations of Health Literacies: A focus on HIV/AIDS Knowledge / Harriet Mutonyi and Maureen E. Kendrick; title: 3. Is It Safer to Talk about Sex in Spanish or English?: Performing Young Adulthood in Oaxaca, Mexico / Ángeles Clemente and Michael J. Higgins; title: 4. Safe Sex? Not So Straightforward: Intersubjective Positioning in Gay Men's Accounts of Sexual Exposure to HIV / Henrike Körner; title: 5. Dangerous Dogmas: AIDS, Discourse, and the Reality of the Rakhel System in India / Noushin Khushrushahi; title: 6. Discursive Constructions of Responsibility in HIV/AIDS Prevention: Investigating Re-entextualization Practices in Tanzania / Christina Higgins; title: 7. Uganda's ABC Program on HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Discursive Site of Struggle / Shelley Jones and Bonny Norton; title: 8. Learning about AIDS Online: Identity and Expertise on a Gay Internet Forum / Rodney H. Jones; title: 9. Contextualizing local knowledge: reformulation in HIV/Aids prevention in Burkina Faso / Martina Drescher; title: 10. What Difference Does This Make?: Studying Southern African Youth as Knowledge Producers within a New Literacy of HIV and AIDS / Claudia Mitchell, Jean Stuart, Naydene de Lange, Relebohile Moletsane, Thabisile Buthelezi, June Larkin, and Sarah Flicker; title: 11. Articulations of Knowing: NGOs and HIV-positive Health in India / Mark Finn and Srikant Sarangi; title: 12. Signs Show the Way: Reading HIV Prevention on the Andaman Islands / Annabelle Mooney.