Code-Switching as a facework strategy within doctor-patient communication in a Galician clinic
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
This work explores code-switching from a sociopragmatic approach as facework in doctor-patient communication in Galicia (Spain), a bilingual speech community. The corpus used in this work was collected through audio-recordings and in-depth interviews in a clinic in this region, where Galician and Castilian are official languages and 95.8% of Galicians claim to understand and 86.9% to speak in a high level both these languages. This research is the first approach to provide answers about why physicians and patients employ code-switching, when there is apparently no linguistic reason (e.g., insufficient language proficiency) to do so. My hypothesis is that speakers accomplish other pragmatic strategies as facework when code-switching, in order to (re)define and (re)construct their identity. In regard to investigate this, I analyze two sequences with the same doctor. In the first one, both doctor and patient employ code-switching from Castilian to Galician as affiliation face and self-facework; while in the second sequence, only the patient employs code-switching from Galician to Castilian as self-facework.
Authors and Affiliations
Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP628467
- DOI 10.17710/tep.2016.2.1.5rtembras
- Views 91
- Downloads 0
El humor como regulador de la actividad de imagen en el debate parlamentario
En este trabajo se presenta el análisis del funcionamiento del humor dentro de un género discursivo fuertemente reglado, como es el debate parlamentario, desde un punto de vista interaccional. En concreto, se analizan la...
Assertive acts an politeness: different strategies used by Brazilians and Chileans in an academic context
This paper aims at describing and contrasting pragmatic strategies focused on how politeness is shown – both in Portuguese and Spanish – within speaking communities from São Paulo, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile while inves...
Preliminary Research on Discourse Markers and Politeness in the Spanish of the United States
This preliminary study determines the dynamics of the discourse markers and politeness in sociolinguistic interviews among Spanish speakers living in the Chicago area. The analysis is based on theories of social relation...
Forms of address as a strategic activity and as an index of categorization within societies of approximation or distancing
The objective of this work is to describe similarities and differences in the address forms in non-polite acts formulated by university students from the cities of Córdoba (Argentina) and Sao Paulo (Brazil), which favor...
Politeness, power and solidarity: perception of university teachers on the use of the pronominal system in the classroom
This paper studies the perception of the use of the pronominal system in classroom context of some professors from the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, of the University of the Republic (Uruguay). The sample...