Interviewing in the Medical Context: Questions, Answers, Assessments – An Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

There has been a large amount of research done on doctor-patient encounters analysing the linguistic and discursive peculiarities occurring in these interactions. Though many relevant features of medical interviewing are well-known to the scientific public, there are still areas for further investigation. One of these areas is the sequential organisation of the dialogues between patients and doctors.

Keywords

• medical interviewing
• therapeutic dialogue
• sociocognitive approach
• sequential organisation
• speech acts