MacDonald, Malcolm and Badger, Richard and O'Regan, John (2009) The social cognition of medical knowledge: with special reference to childhood epilepsy. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6 (3). pp. 176-204. ISSN Print: 1542-7587 Online: 1542-7595
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Abstract
This paper 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 analysed; and the relationship between these different types of medical knowledge and the discursive features of each text type. The paper 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 which they produce, transmit and reproduce.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in MacDonald, Malcolm and Badger, Richard and O'Regan, John (2009) The social cognition of medical knowledge: with special reference to childhood epilepsy. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6 (3). pp. 176-204. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/15427580903118671 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Linguistics, Adult education institution, medical discourse, medical communication, medical knowledge, social cognition, Teun A. Van Dijk, research article, textbook, interview, epilepsy. |
| Subjects: | Departments > Learning, Curriculum and Communication |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2010 17:01 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/5827 |
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