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 (Adelaide University, 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