TACTICS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC STRATEGY OF MEDICAL DISCOURSE

TACTICS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC STRATEGY OF MEDICAL DISCOURSE

Author:  E. M. Kleshchenko

Abstract:  In order to find correct differential diagnosis a doctor uses many tactics - a doctor consults other doctors, makes analyses, communicates with the patient of his/ her relatives, remembers other medical cases which resemble the case which a doctor has at the moment, sometimes even uses linguistic manipulation or persuasion. In the given article we have analyzed these and some other tactics of diagnostic strategy of medical discourse.

Keywords:  medical discourse, law discourse, strategy, tactic, cognitive metaphor

References: 

Nirenberg Dzh. Iskusstvo tvorcheskogo myshleniya. Minsk: Popurri, 1996. 240 s.

Pages:  614-617