CDA & doctor-patient interaction

[John E Richardson]

Dear all,

as part of a search for something completely different, I came across
this article that may be of some use.

HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATION: A PROBLEMATIC SITE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS
RESEARCH
Christopher N. Candlin and Sally Candlin
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (2003) 23, 134-154.

It isn't CDA, but as you know, there isn't really much CDAnalysis of
such discourse out there.
For your info, I've pasted the article's intro & bibliography. It is
quite long, but I guess that in this case, this is a good thing.

Intro:
Applied linguists, and in particular those concerned with the analysis
of discourse in professional contexts, would do well in our view to look
outside their own professional literature for studies that direct
themselves at health care communication, especially where this involves
issues of intercultural communication.1 Until relatively recently,
mainstream applied linguistics journals have to an extent ignored this
field, although among journals in the field of discourse analysis
(broadly understood) there is now something of a tradition, and an
increasing interest, in exploring health care sites in journals like
TEXT and Research on Language and Social Interaction in particular, and
in Discourse and Society and Discourse Processes (although it has to be
said, not all necessarily take an intercultural focus). Of interest in
this context is the planned Journal of Medical Communication scheduled
to appear in 2004, to be published by Mouton de Gruyter. In other more
core applied linguistics journals, for example, Applied Linguistics,
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, English for Specific
Purposes Journal, and in journals on the periphery of applied
linguistics with their own constituencies, such as the Journal of
Sociolinguistics and the Journal of Pragmatics, one finds the occasional
paper, but no real sense of ongoing commitment to the health care
communication field. Given the broad scope of applied linguistics and
these other disciplines, this is understandable; but it suggests that
applied linguists wanting to explore health care communication would do
better, at present at least, to address journals in the fields of the
sociology of medicine, of health care and illness, of culture and
psychiatry, of medical humanities, and of health and social behavior,
such as the Journal of Medical Education; Sociology of Health and
Illness; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; the Journal of Medical
Humanities; the Journal of Health and Social Behavior; Health
Communication; and, in particular, Social Science and Medicine. It is
notable, in the latter case, that the editorial inaugurating the new
millennium for the journal explicitly promotes submissions drawing on
qualitative paradigms, including those involving discourse data
(Blaxter, 2000).

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John E Richardson
Dept of Journalism Studies
Sheffield University