As a form of 'telling': analyzing the use of hypotheticals in end-of-life (EOL) conversations through the discourse of advance care planning (ACP) discussions

• Main Author: Ang, Gregory Ching Hai
• Other Authors: Lim Ni Eng
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Advanced care planning; End-of-life conversations; Medical humanities; Storytelling; Hypotheticals; Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis; EMCA
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177468
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Hypothetical is a complex interactional phenomenon that has been heavily neglected in the literature. While linguistically we understand hypotheticals to be imaginary statements/constructions that can be formed with the use of conditionals, interactionally it is much more complicated. When reviewing...