Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton (eds): LANGUAGE AND HIV/AIDS

摘要

Lining up my post-it notes and trashcan paper to simulate a 'resource-poor' writing environment, I wonder if it is possible to convey the spirit of a first rate collection of field studies without romanticizing their passion for grounding AIDS research in local knowledge. The problems revealed here are huge, so it is exciting to see how well applied linguistics integrates the data and mediates effective, life-giving communication. To date, AIDS intervention has emphasized a one sided 'technical-scientific standpoint' (p. 3).