Language-Specific Response Patterns and Subjective Assessment of Health
A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7792786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill S Reichman (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-368 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07399863970193007 |
| OpenAlex | W2053576150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
It is a premise of many secondary statistical analyses of cross-sectional data that language choice acts as an adequate proxy to assess level of acculturation of Hispanic respondents. In this article, conclusions are analyzed that point to a tendency of Mexican Americans to make negative subjective health assessments. A sociolinguistic analysis is proposed, one that examines code switching as a communicative option that is available to the members of a bilingual speech community. From this perspective, cultural change provides an individual with additional linguistic and symbolic categories for expressing distress. It is discussed how a Mexican American's choice to speak Spanish at the time of the interview may not indicate that he orshe is prone to exaggerate somatic complaints or that he or she is less acculturated, but rather that the mother tongue is the language of choice to communicate psychic demoralization and somatic distress in the context of health-related interview schedules
Acculturation · Developmental psychology · Distress · Ethnic group · Sociology · Clinical Psychology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology
Basics of qualitative research
Bilingualism
Thinking through cultures
Metatheory in social science
Bilinguality and Bilingualism
The Sociolinguistic Significance of Conversational Code-Switching
Depression and somatization
Social Psychologic Factors Affecting the Presentation of Bodily Complaints
Reliability of the CES-D scale in different ethnic contexts
The Cultural Part of Cognition
Culture theory
Life with Two Languages
Contributions of the Bakhtin Circle to 'Communicative Competence'
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
The impact of culture on the cognitive structure of illness
The heart of what's the matter The semantics of illness in Iran
The cross-cultural study of emotions
The effect of inadequate language translation on Hispanics' responses to health surveys
Pitfalls in measuring the health status of Mexican Americans
Cultural Components in Responses to Pain 1
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Latinos and the American Pie
The Importance of Acculturation in Understanding Research with Hispanic-Americans
Folk Medicine Among Urban Mexican Americans
Culture and Symptoms--An Analysis of Patient's Presenting Complaints
Bilingualism
The factor structure of the CES-D in the Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey
Mind, body, and culture
Returned migration, language, and identity
The Measurement of Linguistic Diversity
Blue Collar World
The Experience and Reporting of Common Physical Complaints
Linguistic and Social Interaction in Two Communities1
Culture, Affect and Somatization
Ethnic Affirmation by Chinese Bilinguals
Ethnic Affirmation Versus Social Desirability
Learning How to Ask
Discourse Strategies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |