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L’emergere e la costruzione delle identità nell’interazione medico-paziente in contesti multiculturali
Journal Title: SALUTE E SOCIETÀ 
Author/s: Franca Orletti 
Year:  2013 Issue: 1 Language: Italian 
Pages:  15 Pg. 61-75 FullText PDF:  119 KB
DOI:  10.3280/SES2013-001006
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With few exceptions conversational studies have mostly focused on interactions between doctors and native patients. This paper addresses the construction of non-native identity in interactions between a gynecologist and immigrant patients in a public hospital in Italy. Particularly, the paper addresses the question whether the specific structure of the medical interaction involving a non-native patient makes not only institutional identities (patient/doctor) but also language and cultural identities relevant for the members. Data include a corpus of 12 audiorecorded interactions between a gynecologist and a patient, each 6 of them involving, respectively, a native and a non-native patient. Analyses show that pragmatic, linguistic choices index the identity of the patient as an interactant "of a special kind", by making relevant certain aspects related to her ethnic identity.
Keywords: Social construction of identity, membership categorization device, Conversation Analysis, gynecologist-patient interaction, conversational asymmetry, formulations

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Franca Orletti, in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 1/2013, pp. 61-75, DOI:10.3280/SES2013-001006

   

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