Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7298056 | Journal of Pragmatics | 2015 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the micro-interactional co-construction of power within Spanish language concordant medical consultations in California involving a third party family member. Findings indicate the third party instigates code-switching to English on the part of medical providers, a language that the patient does not understand, rendering the patient a non-participant in the medical consultation. In these consultations involving a third party family member, monolingual Spanish-speaking patients are stripped of control in ways that are similar to other powerless groups in medical consultations. Implications include the need to further examine how micro-level interactions reproduce societal ideologies and shape policy on the ground.
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Authors
Caroline H. Vickers, Ryan Goble, Sharon K. Deckert,