Machine generated contents note: 1.Communicating health and risk -- Health and risk in the twenty-first century -- The organization of this book -- Intellectual roots of an applied linguistic approach -- 2.Applied linguistics: discourse in action -- Applied linguistics -- `Hearing' voices -- Discourse and action -- 3.Entextualizing health and risk -- Texts and the discursive construction of health and risk -- Lexicalization -- Grammaticalization -- Personalization -- Organization -- Resemiotization -- 4.Sites of engagement -- What are we doing? -- Who are we being? -- Framing and positioning in discussions about risk -- 5.Beyond the clinic -- What we talk about when we talk about health -- Risky interactions -- 6.Health, risk, and the entextualized body -- Inscription -- Narrativization -- 7.Virtual bodies -- Medical imaging -- Electronic medical records -- `Welcome to you!': the reflexive dimension of virtual bodies -- 8.Cultures, communities, and social networks --

Contents note continued: `Culture' and health -- Health, risk, and `communities' -- Social networks: `going viral' -- 9.Conclusion: discourse itineraries and research itineraries -- Opening the circumference -- Applied linguistics as a nexus of practice -- Practical applications.