Language use and medical outcomes : issues in assuaging patients’ concerns of pain during consultations

• Main Author: Hor, Felicia Xue Ting
• Other Authors: Lim Ni Eng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142835
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Medical education on aspects of patients’ experience of pain often offer recommendations for doctors on what to do from a bio-medical standpoint, but it remains unclear to what degrees these recommendations are translated into real-world applications. The communicative dimension is also oft neglecte...