#3843. ‘We will take care of you’: Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters

September 2026publication date
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Language and Linguistics;
Linguistics and Language;
Anthropology;
Communication;
Social Psychology;
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Abstract:
Ethnomethodology research has systematically investigated discursive practices of categorisation, looking at the various ways by which social actors ascribe both themselves and others to identity categories to accomplish various kinds of social actions. Our results showed that whilst institutional identities prevailed, categorial formulations related to cultural or linguistic identities were rarely displayed in interactions with non-native patients. Conversational participants made very little of their linguistical or cultural background and when they did so, their cultural and linguistic identities were deployed for rhetorical and pragmatical aims, such as testing and negotiating common knowledge and epistemic authority.
Keywords:
Collective pronouns; doctor-patient communication; intercultural healthcare interactions; oncology; social identity categorisation

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