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Publication details [#65687]

Vásquez, Camilla and Amy Fioramonte. 2019. Multi-party talk in the medical encounter: Socio-pragmatic functions of family members' contributions in the treatment advice phase. Journal of Pragmatics 139 : 132–145.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | health | medical conversation | multiparty conversation | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Medical interaction encounters (MIEs) qualitatively change when family members (FMs) join in. MIEs were used to examine the diverse linguistic and discursive strategies of FMs. FMs used varied discursive strategies to settle legitimacy as co-collaborators in medical encounters. In many cases, FMs' contributions impacted the therapy decision-making process.