%0 Journal Article
%A Cordelia, Marisa
%T Medical discourse in a hispanic environment: Power and simpatia under examination
%D 1999
%J Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
%V 22
%N 2
%P 35-50
%@ 0155-0640
%R https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.22.2.03cor
%I John Benjamins
%X This paper gives a preliminary insight into Hispanic medical discourse. It explores how a physician exercises power and simpatía in conversations with patients and it includes patients’ perception about good medical practice.
The focus is on the analysis of a conversation tape-recorded between the most popular and likeable doctor in the clinic and a female patient. This interaction is compared with the results obtained from a semi-structured interview aiming to discover if this medical exchange represents what patients have identified as positive medical behaviour.
The Hispanic data demonstrate that the doctor uses a variety of strategies in the exchange in order to show both his medical knowledge and his linguistic competence in expressing simpatía in discourse. The latter helps to create a pleasant atmosphere in an interaction in which the doctor’s use of the language is paramount.
%U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/aral.22.2.03cor