The following study is part of a work in progress on the dissemination of mental health care with a special focus on language barriers. It is an attempt to answer the following research question: How does the EU legislation contribute to the implementation of policies and plans towards passing laws that place them in the context of internationally accepted human rights standards and good practices? The investigation is a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the text types ad hoc collected from the Health-EU Portal (ec.europa.eu › ... › Health Problems) and is supported by AntConc software 3.2. The study is based on the assumption of the important role of effective communication in contexts of institutional public services to avoid miscommunication, intercultural conflicts and social exclusion and aiming at the accessibility for people despite their geographical, social or other differences to overcome cultural and language barriers. The findings have revealed a type of communication: - goal-oriented (medium/high level target audience) and - use of lexical items from specialised (legal and corporate) and lack of information accessible to common people, specifically patients.
Opening ‘the gate’: EU discursive strategies towards a mental well-being of citizens / Polese, Vanda; G., D'Acquisto. - (2012). (Intervento presentato al convegno ELB 2012 Eurolinguistics and the Challenge of Language Barriers in the Public Service tenutosi a Università Della Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, CS) nel 8 - 9 November 2012).
Opening ‘the gate’: EU discursive strategies towards a mental well-being of citizens
POLESE, VANDA;
2012
Abstract
The following study is part of a work in progress on the dissemination of mental health care with a special focus on language barriers. It is an attempt to answer the following research question: How does the EU legislation contribute to the implementation of policies and plans towards passing laws that place them in the context of internationally accepted human rights standards and good practices? The investigation is a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the text types ad hoc collected from the Health-EU Portal (ec.europa.eu › ... › Health Problems) and is supported by AntConc software 3.2. The study is based on the assumption of the important role of effective communication in contexts of institutional public services to avoid miscommunication, intercultural conflicts and social exclusion and aiming at the accessibility for people despite their geographical, social or other differences to overcome cultural and language barriers. The findings have revealed a type of communication: - goal-oriented (medium/high level target audience) and - use of lexical items from specialised (legal and corporate) and lack of information accessible to common people, specifically patients.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
