35.2126, Calls: IPRA2025 - Panel "The interface between rapport building and information sharing in clinical interactions: Analysis of communication strategies through an interpersonal-pragmatics lens"

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Subject: 35.2126, Calls: IPRA2025 - Panel "The interface between rapport building and information sharing in clinical interactions: Analysis of communication strategies through an interpersonal-pragmatics lens"

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Date: 26-Jul-2024
From: Maria Dahm [maria.dahm at anu.edu.au]
Subject: IPRA2025 - Panel "The interface between rapport building and information sharing in clinical interactions: Analysis of communication strategies through an interpersonal-pragmatics lens"


Full Title: IPRA2025 - Panel The interface between rapport building
and information sharing in clinical interactions: Analysis of
communication strategies through an interpersonal-pragmatics lens

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Maria Dahm
Meeting Email: maria.dahm at anu.edu.au

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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The 19th International Pragmatics Conference

Call for Papers:

We invite you to contribute to our panel at the 19th International
Pragmatics Association Conference!
 • Share your research with a global audience of pragmatics experts
 • Receive valuable feedback on your work
 • Contribute to a stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion

Panel Overview
 • Title: The interface between rapport building and information
sharing in clinical interactions: Analysis of communication strategies
through an interpersonal-pragmatics lens (organized by Francesco De
Toni, Maria R. Dahm)

Positive interpersonal relationships between patients, caregivers and
clinicians enhance patients’ involvement in their own care, increase
patients’ adherence to treatment plans, enable safe delivery of  care,
and lead to better health outcomes (Haskard-Zolnierek et al. 2021;
Slade et al. 2015). Clinicians can adopt contextualised communication
strategies to strengthen the interpersonal relationship with their
patients and build rapport. These strategies coexist with and support
clinicians’ communication strategies aimed at achieving effective
sharing of information with patients (e.g. receiving the patient’s
history, discussing risks and uncertainty, providing information at
discharge etc.). In clinical interactions, these interconnected
strategies do relational work, are sensitive to the sociopragmatic
context, and need to be adapted to the interlocutor’s responses in
real time.

By adopting an interpersonal pragmatics lens (Locher and Graham 2010),
we can examine how rapport building and information provision work
together. This lens considers the dynamic co-construction of roles
(Roberts and Sarangi, 1999) and the negotiation of relational norms
within specific sociocultural contexts, such as clinical interactions.

This panel aims to explore, from an interpersonal pragmatics lens, the
connection between strategies that negotiate the clinician-patient
relationship and strategies that enable effective information sharing
in clinical interactions. We invite contributions that analyse this
connection in the light of different factors that may influence its
realisation, such as (but not limited to):
 • clinical settings (e.g. emergency department; hospital wards);
 • critical points in clinical workflows (e.g. hospital admission;
discharge);
 • communication goals (e.g. communicating risk; delivering
educational content);
 • variation based on epistemic and/or sociolinguistic factors;
 • situational variation based on the interlocutor’s responses;
 • variation across languages and in multilingual contexts.

We also invite contributions that examine theories and methods to
investigate the interface between rapport building and information
sharing in clinical interactions, either through pragmatic categories
alone or through a combination of pragmatic analysis and approaches
from other areas of linguistics.


Presentation Format
 • 20-minute oral presentation
 • 10-minute discussion

Abstract Submission
 • Submit by November 1, 2024, via the conference website:
https://ipra2025.exordo.com
 • Corresponding author must be an IPrA member
 • Word count: 250-500 words
 • Include: Research purpose, questions, design, method, findings, and
implications
 • Share your research with a global audience of pragmatics experts
 • Receive valuable feedback on your work
 • Contribute to a stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion

Please submit your abstract by November 1, 2024.

For inquiries, please contact:
 • Francesco De Toni: francesco.detoni at anu.edu.au
 • Maria R. Dahm:  Maria.dahm at anu.edu.au

By participating in our panel, you will have the opportunity to
contribute to a deeper understanding of the critical role of
communication in healthcare. We look forward to receiving your
submissions!



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