Patient-centred Communication: Discourse of In-home Medical Consultations for Older Adults (Language at Work, 5)

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the use of patient-/person-centred communication in providing healthcare for ageing populations through an ethnographic approach to physician in-home medical consultations in Tokyo, Japan, alongside interviews with physicians. It focuses on illustrating how linguistic dimensions of person-centred communication work by citing examples of case studies, as well as the sociocultural differences between the US, the UK, Japan and other societies in which person-centred communication models are employed. The author uses her own framework, which takes into account face and politeness theory, and makes recommendations for future training.

• | Author: Kayo Kondo
• | Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 461 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1800415885
• | ISBN-13: 9781800415881