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Publication details [#9548]
Valero-Garcés, Carmen. 2005. Doctor–patient consultations in dyadic and triadic exchanges. In Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger, eds. Healthcare interpreting: discourse and interaction. Special issue of Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting 7 (2): 193–210. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal DOI
10.1075/intp
Abstract
This article presents the results of a study on doctor–patient interaction in dyadic and triadic exchanges. The analysis is based on transcripts of recordings done at healthcare centres in northern Madrid, Spain, and Minneapolis, USA. The methodological approach is that of institutional discourse analysis as developed by Drew and Heritage (Drew & Heritage 1992; Heritage 1995, 1997; Drew & Sorjonen 1997). Three different types of doctor–patient interaction are examined: (1) doctor/foreign-language patient; (2) doctor/ foreign-language patient/ad hoc interpreter; (3) doctor/ foreign-language patient/trained interpreter. Topics such as the assignment of participant roles, changes in the general structure, turn-taking, and asymmetrical relationships are explored. The study is mainly descriptive and qualitative, but also includes some comparative quantitative analyses.
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