Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Aug 2020)

REPRESENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL COMMUNICATION IN LITERARY TEXT (ON THE VERBATIM DOC.TOP. ZAPISKI PROVINTSIAL’NOGO VRACHA BY ELENA ISAEVA)

  • Olga Gennadievna Shilnikova,
  • Svetlana Sergeevna Vasileva,
  • Elena Alekseevna Ovechkina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2020-4-344-360
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4
pp. 344 – 360

Abstract

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The article describes the uniqueness of professional medical communication and the features of its representation in a literary text. The purpose of the study is to identify the substantive, functional and structural features of professional communication in medicine. The subject of study is the emotional-communicative and verbal aspects of professional communication within verbatim Doc.Top. Zapiski provintsial’nogo vracha by E. Isaeva. Research methods are determined by the research objectives and include general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, a combination of linguistic (descriptive and statistical methods) and literary (problem-thematic) methods. The novelty of the study is due to its interdisciplinary nature. This paper makes an attempt to integrate the knowledge of the theory of communication, linguistics and literary criticism. The most significant results of the study are the conclusions that professional medical communication is distinguished by the syncretism of pragmatic, professionally-labeled and personal communicative strategies, expressed emotional and psychological speech behavior of communicants. The specifics of the information and communication interaction in the medical discourse is determined by the status-role relations between the participants, the sociocultural and institutional context of communication, as well as the special professional motivation of the doctor as a representative of a significant sphere of human life. Practical implications. The results can be used in the study of such disciplines as the theory of communication, the style of the text, as well as in the analysis of artistic speech and verbatim.

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