34.967, Calls: Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-967. Tue Mar 21 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.967, Calls: Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions

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From: Ahmad Izadi [Ahmad.Izadi at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions

Full Title: Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions
Short Title: CDPI

Date: 03-Oct-2023 - 05-Oct-2023
Location: University of Bayreuth and online, Germany
Contact Person: Ahmad Izadi
Meeting Email: Ahmad.Izadi at uni-bayreuth.de

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Clinical Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 31-May-2023

Meeting Description:

Conference organised by AvH-Research group linkage team “Interactive
Dynamics and Contexts of Nigerian and German
Doctor-Patient-Encounters”

Conference committee: Tosin Adeyehun (University of Ibadan/Nigeria),
Oluwaseun Amusa (University of Ibadan/Nigeria), Alexandra Groß
(University of Bayreuth/Germany), Ahmad Izadi (University of
Bayreuth/Germany and Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran.)

“Comparative Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions” (CDPI) is a
hybrid international conference organised by the research group
linkage team on the project “Interactive Dynamics and Contexts of
Nigerian and German Doctor-Patient-Encounters” (funded by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) to be hosted at the University of
Bayreuth, Germany and in the virtual space, from 3rd to 5th of October
2023.

Within Conversation Analysis (CA) and Linguistic Pragmatics, the
investigation of doctor-patient interactions has become one of the
most dominant branches of research and “has expanded to include
interactions in a variety of specialty care settings as well as in
allied fields such as pharmacy and dentistry” (Teas Gill & Roberts
2013: 575). While studies in Medical CA (e.g. Heritage 2017,
Fatigante, et al. 2020) or Medical Pragmatics (e.g. (Odebunmi 2021)
usually include – at least implicitly – a comparative perspective in
the way that they relate their own results to (previous) findings in
corresponding or similar interaction types, only few studies have
explicitly compared conversational phenomena across data sets
originating from different linguistic/cultural/national contexts until
now. Exceptions are e.g. the studies by Bergen, et al. (2018) and
Boluwaduro & Groß (2019). The former investigates differences between
US American and British interactions with regards to the manifestation
of patients’ resistance against treatment recommendation showing that
distinct behavioural trends may reflect distinct cultural norms of
good-practices. Boluwaduro & Groß (2019) compare the conversational
impact of the “How are you (doing)” opening question in Nigerian and
German HIV consultations and conversely show that one identical
practice might have distinct conversational consequences and thus
contextualise distinct norms.

In order to shift the attention to this underexposed but promising
research area we call for contributions that explicitly take a
comparative perspective on doctor-patient interactions within Medical
Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Health Communication. We look
forward to proposals that explore doctor-patient interactions focusing
on interactional phenomena from a comparative view in the sense that
they compare linguistic choices, conversational practices and actions
within the same interaction type (such as HIV consultations, first
consultations at the general practitioner etc.) in different
linguistic/cultural/national contexts.

Comparative investigations may also be triggered by emphasising the
contextualization of social factors like gender, social class and
educational background, the role of interpreter-mediation in
multilingual interactions compared to monolingual interactions, as
well as the relevance of the medical setting (in vs. out patient
etc.). We welcome contributions which relate their analyses to
theoretical concepts of health science, such as paternalism/humanism,
shared decision making, informed choice (e.g. Albus & Koerfer 2015),
asymmetry (e.g. Pilnick & Dingwall 2011), subjective illness theories
(e.g. Birkner & Vlassenko 2015) or to pragmatic theories, including
face theories (e.g., Arundale 2020; Goffman 1967), politeness theories
(Locher & Watts 2015; Kadar & Haugh 2013; Brown & Levinson 1978,
identity theories (e.g., Simon 2004), common ground theories (e.g.
Clark & Brennan 1991; Kecskes & Zhang 2009) etc.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts (max. 350 words, plus references) should clearly indicate
the objective(s), methodology and results of the study. Presentations
will typically be scheduled in sessions of 30 minutes allocated to
each individual presentation. We also plan a poster session conducted
in the virtual space. Submissions should be sent to the conference
committee via email at CDPI at uni-bayreuth.de, and should include
information whether they are meant for an oral presentation or a
poster.

Important information:
- Conference venue: Hybrid meeting: hosted at the University of
Bayreuth and in the virtual space (via zoom)
- Conference dates: from 3rd to 5th of October 2023
- Deadline for abstract submission: 31st May 2023
- Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2023
- Conference language: English
- Registration fee: None (The conference is funded by Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation)

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