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ReviewDiscourse and Mental Health. Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical SettingsJuan Eduardo Bonnin (2019)London / New York: RoutledgeIn recent decades, there has been much interest in research on linguistic inequality and how it produces wider social, economic and cultural inequalities. However, there are few perspectives in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis that provide an update of the theoretical concepts and methodological approaches that enable new views on this phenomenon. The book by Juan Eduardo Bonnin proposes an original approach to linguistic inequality in mental healthcare settings from a critical, situated perspective on discourse analysis. By an extensive action-research process with an ethnographic perspective, the author presents a sociolinguistic examination of the ways people produce and reproduce (in)equality in everyday communicative practices, focusing on the practical problems derived from unequal access to language-based rights, such as the right to health.