Agnieszka Sowińska
List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnieszka Sowińska is involved.
2025 Narratives of stressful and traumatic personal experience disclosed by students with mental health conditions in medical consultations Narrative Inquiry 35:1, pp. 116–138 | Article
This paper advances the field of narratives by focusing on the narratives of personal experience disclosed by students with mental health conditions, in particular depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder, in medical consultations. I draw on sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic… read more
2020 Gestures in patients’ presentation of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) Gesture 19:1, pp. 97–127 | Article
The aim of this paper is to explore speech-accompanying gesture use in presentation of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). The data are 19 video-filmed semi-structured interviews with patients presenting MUS. Four patterns of gestural behaviors are established in symptom presentation: (1) No… read more
2017 Chapter 15. ‘Even if there were procedures, we will be acting at our own discretion…’: General practitioners’ struggle about identity Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 281–298 | Chapter
The objective of this chapter is to explore how Polish general practitioners (GPs) discursively negotiate their professional identities in relation to their emotions and to the barriers they face in the healthcare system, while dealing with patients presenting Medically Unexplained… read more
2014 ‘I must do everything to eliminate my negative attitude’: Polish general practitioners’ emotions toward patients with medically unexplained symptoms Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, Baider, Fabienne H. and Georgeta Cislaru (eds.), pp. 309–330 | Article
The objective of this paper is to explore Polish general practitioners’ (GPs) language of emotions used with regard to patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). Specifically, the study focuses on the linguistic expressions and discursive strategies drawn upon in the communication of… read more