A Medical Discourse Study of Speech Acts and Other Pragmatic Theories

ISBN-13: 9783659959639 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str.

Doaa Taher Matrood

Opis

"The Doctors" is one of the most well-known daily American talk shows introducing medical advice. It started in 2008 and aired until August 2022. This study aims to find the linguistic representation used by doctors while giving online medical information based on the form of speech used in the discussions. The researcher selected six episodes of "The Doctors" which can be found easily online by just writing their titles on YouTube. These data have been examined according to Searle's speech acts, Grice's Maxims, Presupposition and Implicature.