Medical Discourse

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22367186
AutoresJames Wilce, James M Wilce (0000-0001-6363-4092, Northern Arizona University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Páginas1-7
Fecha de publicación2020-11-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoOTHER
RevistaThe International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118786093.iela0255
OpenAlexW4255209249
ISBN9781118786093
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas12

Linguistic anthropology is uniquely suited to the anthropological study of medicine, health, and healing. It provides evidence of a crucial role that discourse plays in medicine, asserting that medical discourse in the broadest sense – i.e. discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies – has great anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices, and relations of authority in and beyond particular healing encounters. Linguistic anthropologists bring to the analysis of medical discourse a sophisticated set of analytic tools that address the role of communication in and around medicine in social reproduction and the reproduction of cultural sensibilities. Such analyses also diverge from the quantitative, self‐report‐oriented, studies of “practitioner–patient communication” in the medical literature

Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Health care · Ideology · Linguistics · Medical anthropology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Anthropology · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition