Optimisation as a pattern modeling questions in institutional communication (on the basis of doctor−patient and clerk−client relationships) Cover Image

Optymizacja jako wzorzec kształtowania pytań w rozmowie instytucjonalnej (na przykładzie relacji lekarz–pacjent i urzędnik−klient)
Optimisation as a pattern modeling questions in institutional communication (on the basis of doctor−patient and clerk−client relationships)

Author(s): Mariusz Rutkowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: conversation analysis; positioning identities in conversation; institutional communication; optimization; institutional talk; doctor-patient talk

Summary/Abstract: The analysis is concerned with optimization pattern applied in modeling answers ininstitutional communication. The pattern ensures that an affirmative answer to a closedquestion confirms a positive and optimistic scenario of events. The analyzed examplesof interviews coming from institutional discourse (medical and public services ones) showin what way optimization is realized and how it becomes not only a pattern modellingthe discourse but also an instrument of construing interpersonal relations. The pattern isparticularly striking in the context of the Polish culture, which prefers the script of complainingrather than affirmation.

  • Issue Year: 18/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 133-145
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish