This book is a selection of linguistic and multimodal research on healthcare and well-being communication in Japan. This volume offers unique perspectives to the field of healthcare communication research, where studies in the West is still dominant, providing a missing piece of the whole picture. Multiculturality and multimodality in interactions in healthcare and well-being are the themes in this volume. Culture here is not limited to ethnic groups, including any sociocultural groups from different professional disciplines to atypical individuals. Two research principles are addressed: (1) multiculturality: how are inter/cross-cultural encounters or issues among different sociocultural groups addressed, and what practices are embodied in a particular sociocultural setting?, and (2) multimodality: what semiotic resources are included in the analysis, how are those data collected and transcribed? The first chapter (Tsuchiya) provides a concise overview of healthcare communication research in Japan and Europe, introducing the themes and chapters in this volume. The introductory chapter is followed by case studies in a range of research fields in healthcare and well-being in Japan: Chapter 2 (Aizaki) employs a discourse analytic approach to examine framing in a first-encounter interaction among a Japanese adult with ASD and other three non-ASD Japanese adults. The context of Nukuto's ethnographic discourse research (Chapter 3) was set in a classroom at a Japanese university, where a special education teacher was teaching crafting (monodukuri) to prospective teachers, highlighting materials as a communicative medium for grounding. Chapter 4 (Sekine, Takashima, Oka, Yano, and Suzuki) investigates how Deaf children who use Japanese Sign Language adjust their expressions of a special location in interactions with those in different age groups. Chapter 5 (Yohena) analyses discourses in Christian coaching between an American coach and a Japanese client from a cross-cultural perspective. The last two chapters are studies in hospital. Kuroshima's conversation analytic research (Chapter 6) provides a detailed description of doctors' use of patient's medical records during consultations. Chapter 7 (Tsuchiya, Nakamura and Coffey) captures a moment when a trauma team leader rejects a member's proposal in simulation in the UK and Japan. The concluding chapter (Chapter 8, Tsuchiya) recapitulates themes, theories and methods which the chapter authors employed in the previous chapters, encouraging publications in health and well-being communication research in Asia and beyond.

Employs a variety of linguistic research methods, e.g., multimodal and discourse/conversation analysis and ethnography Includes in-depth discussions on multiculturality and multimodality in health communication in Japan Provides an overview of health and well-being communication research in Japanese contexts with case studies

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Keiko Tsuchiya is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies, Yokohama City University (YCU).  She received a Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics) from School of English, University of Nottingham, UK, and took Lecturer/Associate Professor Position in the International Education Centre at Tokai University before moving to YCU. Her research interest includes multimodal analysis of team interactions in healthcare settings and language education in Japanese contexts, i.e., ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Her monograph is Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters: A Time-aligned Multimodal Corpus Analysis (2013, John Benjamins), and her recent edited book is Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research: Visualizing Interactions for Resilient Healthcare in the UK and Japan (2023, Bloomsbury Academic, co-edited with Frank Coffey and Kyota Nakamura). In addition to the edited volume, she has also published outcomes of the research project in journals in medicine and health communication.

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Chapter 1. Healthcare Communication Research in Japan.- Chapter 2. The case study of understandings of the conversational contexts of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Chapter 3. Materials as a communicative medium for grounding: Analysing monodukuri (manufacturing) discourse between a teacher educator and prospective teachers in special education.- Chapter 4. How do Deaf children adjust their expressions of a spatial location for same- or different-age peers?.- Chapter 5. Religious beliefs and coaching discourse in cross-cultural context: a case study of Christian coaching between an American coach and a Japanese client.- Chapter 6. Reading a medical record: Professional vision and ordinary 'looking' as a resource for the action formation in a doctor-patient interaction.- Chapter 7. When a proposal is rejected: Distributing deontic rights in emergency care team interactions in Japan and the UK.