'Lo que se debe hacer es cambiar un poco el estilo de vida': estrategias de atenuación del consejo en un consultorio médico

Nieves Hernández-Flores; Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás

'Lo que se debe hacer es cambiar un poco el estilo de vida': estrategias de atenuación del consejo en un consultorio médico

Nieves Hernández-Flores, Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This article studies mitigation strategies in medical advice-giving during primary care consultations. The purpose is to relate the use of mitigation with the social effect on the speakers’ face in accordance to the roles that are played in the specific interaction. Mitigation strategies are analyzed from pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic perspectives in two extracts of medical consultations. The results show that, when there is a risk of threat to the interactants’ face, the use of mitigation strategies achieves the social effect of mitigating threats to face. On the other hand, when no threats to face are perceived in the interaction, mitigation strategies contribute to enhance the speakers’ face.

Translated title of the contribution	‘WHAT MUST BE DONE IS TO MAKE SOME CHANGES IN LIFESTYLE’: MITIGATION STRATEGIES IN MEDICAL ADVICE-GIVING
Original language	Spanish
Article number	15(2)
Journal	Spanish in Context
Volume	15
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	325-345
Number of pages	21
ISSN	1571-0718
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Faculty of Humanities

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