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The social cognition of medical knowledge: with special reference to childhood epilepsy
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MacDonald, Malcolm, 1953-, Badger, Richard and O' Regan, John. (2009) The social cognition of medical knowledge: with special reference to childhood epilepsy. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Vol.6 (No.3). pp. 176-204. ISSN 1542-7587
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15427580903118671
Abstract
This article arose out of an engagement in medical communication courses at a Gulf university. It deploys a theoretical framework derived from a (critical) sociocognitive approach to discourse analysis in order to investigate three aspects of medical discourse relating to childhood epilepsy: the cognitive processes that are entailed in relating different types of medical knowledge to their communicative context; the types of medical knowledge that are constituted in the three different text types analyzed; and the relationship between these different types of medical knowledge and the discursive features of each text type. The article argues that there is a cognitive dimension to the human experience of understanding and talking about one specialized from of medical knowledge. It recommends that texts be studied in medical communication courses not just in terms of their discrete formal features but also critically in terms of the knowledge they produce, transmit, and reproduce.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social perception, Communication in medicine, Knowledge, Sociology of, Medicine -- Specialties and specialists, Language and medicine, Epilepsy in children |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Inquiry in Language Studies |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISSN: | 1542-7587 |
| Date: | 11 September 2009 |
| Volume: | Vol.6 |
| Number: | No.3 |
| Number of Pages: | 29 |
| Page Range: | pp. 176-204 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/15427580903118671 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/36919 |
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