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Interpersonal Metaphor Used in Different Discursive Moves in Reply Posts of an Online Health Forum

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Online health communities have found to be important healthcare information resources for patients and caregivers through a study of 25,448 websites, for “increased access to online health information can empower patients to manage health better” (Nath et al. in Journal of Medical Internet Research 18(1):e11, 2016: 2).

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Yang, B. (2020). Interpersonal Metaphor Used in Different Discursive Moves in Reply Posts of an Online Health Forum. In: Yang, B., Li, W. (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4771-3_15

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