عنوان

Participation and Conversational Involvement in Brokered Medical Interviews: A case of Iraqi Patients in Southern California

Number

TL47943

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Participation and Conversational Involvement in Brokered Medical Interviews: A case of Iraqi Patients in Southern California

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Afaf Nash

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Thompson, Katrina Daly; Goodwin, Charles

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Los Angeles

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

197

Text of Note

Committee members: Cooperson, Michael; Goodwin, Marjorie H.; Ochs, Elinor; Orellana, Marjorie F.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-20522-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Applied Linguistics

Body granting the degree

University of California, Los Angeles

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

Employing the theoretical foundations of conversation analysis, this dissertation examines the actions of patients with limited English ability who depend on family members to mediate their medical interaction. Analysis shows how patients seek immediate contact with their interlocutors despite limited English competencies. Using a variety of semiotic resources, non-English speaking patients are found to override the brokering process and construct their patienthood independently. The study discusses communicative competence, conversational commitment, asymmetries of participation, and decision-making in brokered medical encounters. It demonstrates the complexity of participation and decision-making in triadic interactions in the medial setting, in which roles of participation intersect and overlap in non-conventional ways. The dissertation's findings lay significant claims on novice communicative competence, brokered medical discourse, and doctor-non-English-speaking patient relationship. It also suggests future research direction and provides recommendation to improve interaction in cross-linguistic medical encounters.

Communication; Sociolinguistics; Conversation analysis; English; Patients; Medical ethics; Communicative competence; Semiotics

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Health and environmental sciences;Communicative competence;Iraqi-arab patients;Language brokering;Medical interaction;Novice communication;Social interaction

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Thompson, Katrina Daly; Goodwin, Charles

Subdivision

Applied Linguistics

University of California, Los Angeles

Call Number

1617971025; 3637621

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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