On Predicating a Diagnosis as an Attribute of a Person

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5966202
AutoresD W Maynard (0000-0002-3021-6916, University of Wisconsin–Madison, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume6
Fascículo1
Páginas53-76
Data de publicação2004-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445604039439
OpenAlexW2068857124
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas23

This article explores the relation between ‘citing the evidence’, or implicating a particular diagnosis, and ‘asserting the condition’, or overtly predicating the diagnosis as an attribute of a person. Clinicians regularly postpone or delay asserting the condition, which is interactionally more confrontational and presumptive. They regularly do the postponement by citing the evidence prior to asserting the condition, using the evidence as kind of predecessor account for predicating the diagnosis as an attribute of the person. Citing the evidence as leading to asserting the condition enhances the likelihood of recipients realizing some bad news or other kind of diagnostic upshot. This study has implications for the relation between interaction and authority in medical discourse

Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Postponement · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology