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The social cognition of medical knowledge: with special reference to childhood epilepsy

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MacDonald, Malcolm, Badger, Richard and O'Regan, John P. (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. doi:10.1080/15427580903118671 ISSN 1542-7587.

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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
Official Date: 11 September 2009
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11 September 2009Published
Volume: Vol.6
Number: No.3
Number of Pages: 29
Page Range: pp. 176-204
DOI: 10.1080/15427580903118671
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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