Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper offers empirically grounded observations on the interactional organization of treatment recommendations in secondary care in the context of Polish healthcare. Drawing on conversation analysis as a method of analysis, the paper highlights practices involved in the design of the activity of recommending treatment. It begins with a background sketch of the available interactional research on the organization of treatment recommendations in Polish doctor-patient communication, followed by a case study that focuses on the format in which invasive treatment recommendation is presented and the sequential unfolding of patient’s acceptance thereof. The paper concludes that patients and doctors use joint interactional strategies to manage the progressivity of the treatment recommendation activity towards a mutually agreeable and acceptable outcome.
Source: Prace Językoznawcze
DOI: 10.31648/pj.11532
Author: Matylda Weidner
Institution: Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415102777