Publications

Publication details [#55373]

Lassen, Inger and Jeanne Strunck. 2011. The discursive construction of self positioning amongst minority ethnic patients in a hospital ward. Journal of multicultural discourses 6 (3) : 273–290.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | hospital | intercultural communication | minority language | self-representation

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study discusses the discursive self positioning of ethnic minority patients in an infectious diseases Danish hospital ward and examines whether such positions and roles are ascribable to culture, language competence or social conditions. Culture is dealt with from a patient perspective.