Confrontation and politeness strategies in physician-patient interactions

Confrontation and politeness strategies in physician-patient interactions.

The therapeutic success of physician-patient interactions depends in large part on how physicians interpret and respond to patients' implicit and explicit messages. Using a hypothetical vignette, in which a patient refuses to comply with a recommended therapeutic regimen, we found that first-year medical students with no classroom training in medical interviewing implicitly recognized that the ...

Shame in Physician-Patient Interactions: Patient Perspectives

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Politeness Strategies and Politeness Markers in Email Request Sent by Iranian EFL Learners to Professors

This study attempts to investigate politeness strategies and politeness markers in email-request sent byIranian male and female EFL learners to professors. The comparison between strategies used by malesand females in email-request were also analyzed. 52 actual emails of M.A students of TEFL studying atAzad University consisted the data in this research. To analyze the corpus, politeness strate...

Iranian EFL Learners’ Awareness of (Im)politeness Strategies in English

The present study examined the different levels of (im)politeness strategies in expressing request, apology, and refusal speech acts across intermediate and advanced Iranian EFL learners to identify their attitudinal ratings of their produced structures in terms of pragmatic success and (im)politeness mannerism. A discourse completion test including 2 Likert scales on attitudinal appropriatenes...