In:A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding
Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 338] 2023
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 17 November 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.338.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.338.toc
Table of contents
Introduction.Fostering interdisciplinary knowledge translation
at the interface between healthcare communication and pragmatics
at the interface between healthcare communication and pragmatics
Sarah Bigi
Maria Grazia Rossi
Section 1.Analytical approaches to health communication
Chapter 1.Methodological insights for the study
of communication in health
of communication in health
Teresa L. Thompson
Wayne A. Beach
Chapter 2.Microanalysis of Clinical Interaction (MCI)
Jennifer Gerwing
Sara Healing
Julia Menichetti
Chapter 3.Public disagreements among health experts
and their polarizing effects during a pandemic health crisis: A speech-act theoretical perspective
and their polarizing effects during a pandemic health crisis: A speech-act theoretical perspective
Paolo Labinaz
Section 2.Intercultural and mediated communication
Chapter 4.Face-to-face intercultural communication and mediated intercultural communication as related to health communication
Istvan Kecskes
Chapter 5.On managing dyadic sequences in triadic clinician-patient-interpreter interaction
Laura Gavioli
Claudio Baraldi
Chapter 6.Pursuing understanding or engaging the patient? “Making the body speak” as a dilemma-overcoming practice in triadic primary care visits with unaccompanied foreign minors
Letizia Caronia
Federica Ranzani
Vittoria Colla
Section 3.Negotiation and meaning construction
Chapter 7.Negotiation and joint construction of meaning
(or why health providers need philosophy of communication)
(or why health providers need philosophy of communication)
Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Lidia Berthon
Chapter 8.Metapragmatics and reflections in support of knowledge
transfer and common ground in doctor-patient interaction
transfer and common ground in doctor-patient interaction
Ágnes Kuna
Ágnes Hámori
Chapter 9.The pediatrician’s normalizing practice in well-child visits: Translating statistic measures into lay terms as a means to reassure parents
Federica Ranzani
Section 4.Expertise and common ground
Chapter 10.Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals
Keith Allan
Chapter 11.Whose common ground? Analyzing communication between physiotherapists and patients in a Hungarian hospital
Anna Udvardi
Chapter 12.Peer experts as actors for shared understanding
in Spanish online health fora
in Spanish online health fora
Barbara De Cock
Carolina Figueras Bates
Section 5.Uncertainty and evasive answers
Chapter 13.Uncertainty in healthcare: Current challenges and future research directions
Paul K. J. Han
Chapter 14.The pragmatics of diagnostic uncertainty: A closer look at hedges and shared understanding in diagnostic statements
Maria R. Dahm
Carmel Crock
Chapter 15.On indicating and dealing with uncertainty in healthcare
dialogues: Questions and findings for medical practice and teaching
dialogues: Questions and findings for medical practice and teaching
Julia Gärtner
Kristin Bühr
Sigrid Harendza
Chapter 16.How uncertainty can be turned into shared understanding: Evidence from online medical consultations in Taiwan
Ming-Yu Tseng
Grace Zhang
Index
