Professor Christopher N Candlin

Title 

Senior Research Professor

Institution Centre for Language in Social Life, Macquarie University,
Discipline Linguistics
Expertise 

The analysis of discourse in interaction in legal and in healthcare contexts, especially professional-client interaction in critical moments of service delivery

Relevant Publications 

C.N.Candlin (Ed) (2002) Research and Practice in Professional Discourse, Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong Press.

C.N.Candlin (2002) The Cardiff Lecture: 2000: New discourses of the clinic rediscovering the patient in healthcare, Cardiff, Cardiff University, Centre for Health Communication Research.

C.N.Candlin & S.Candlin (Eds) (2002) Discourse, expertise and the management of risk, Special Issue of The Journal of Research on Language & Social Interaction 35, 2 (115-137).

C.N.Candlin & S.Candlin (2002) Introduction: Discourse, expertise and the management of risk in C.N.Candlin & S.Candlin (Eds) (op.cit.) S. Sarangi and C.N.Candlin (Eds) Special Issue of Health, Risk and Society: Risk in health and social care (June)

R. Jones and C.N.Candlin (2002) Constructing risk across timescales and trajectories: gay men’s stories of sexual encounters, in S.Sarangi & C.N.Candlin (Eds) Special Issue of Health, Risk and Society: Risk in health and social care

N.Coupland, S. Sarangi & C.N.Candlin (Eds) (2001) Sociolinguistics and Social Theory, London Pearson.

A. Moore, C.N.Candlin & G.Plum (2001) Making sense of viral load: one expert or two? Journal of Culture, Health & Sexuality, 3, 4, 429-450

S.Sarangi & C.N.Candlin (2001) Motivational relevancies: some methodological reflections on sociolinguistic practice, in N.Coupland, S.Sarangi & C.N.Candlin (Eds) Sociolinguistics and social theory, London, Pearson.

R.H.Jones,K.K.Yu & C.,N.Candlin (2000) A preliminary investigation of HIV vulnerability and risk behaviour among men who have sex with men in Hong Kong, The AIDS Trust Fund and Centre for English Language Education & Communication Research, City University of Hong Kong