Doctor-patient discourse

[Lutfi M Hussein]

Dear Zge,

I think CDA could be useful in analyzing
doctor-patient disocurses. Fairclough has examined
this in a few different places; you could check his
_Discourse and Social Change_, for example.

CDA could examine how the doctor and patient are
positioned socially through discourse. For example,
Fairclough argues this interaction is variable.
Traditionally, in western medicine, the doctor is the
expert who asks the questions while the patient who is
in need of the expert is expected to answer these
questions.

On the other hand, in holistic medicine, the doctor
may not play the role of the expert and try to solve
the problem or treat the patient by having the patient
play a more active role in this process. This may also
be a side-effect or a result of the democratization of
contemporary discourse in some professions or
activities like medicine, another interesting issue
that Fairclough discusses in later work.

Finally, I think at least one approach to CDA --
Fairclough's -- could be helpful in analyzing the
doctor-patient discourse.

Best wishes, Lutfi
--- özge çaglar <caglarozge at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:


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Hello everyone!

I have been thinking about this for a time and i
wanted to ask it to you and have your ideas too. I am
thinking about applying CDA to my analysis about the
doctor-patient interaction. What do you think the
advantages and disadvantages of using CDA for this
type of a topic as you know CDA is mostly used for
another topics such as politics, gender and other
critical topics as these. I am really confused about
this, as no study has used CDA in such a topic before.

Could you please comment about this??

Thank you!

özge





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