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Publication details [#60046]

Norrby, Catrin, Camilla Wide, Jenny Nilsson and Jan Lindström. 2015. Interpersonal relationships in medical consultations. Comparing Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish address practices. Journal of Pragmatics 84 : 121–138.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | doctor-patient conversation | informality | language and culture | pronoun

Language as a subject

Swedish, Finland | Swedish, Sweden

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This variational pragmatics study discusses how Sweden Swedish doctor-patient interactions are more informal than Finland Swedish ones. These diverse pragmatic orientations can also be linked to macro socio-cultural predilection for greater informality and cordial language in Sweden than in Finland.