Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts

This paper investigates the connection between self-repairs, conversation analytical mechanisms, and the concept of certainty in Romanian academic meetings. The focus is on the design of turn(s) in which the chair and the other participants provide feedback on a piece of writing. The data reveal tha...

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Main Authors Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Bongelli, Ramona, Riccioni, Ilaria, Canestrari, Carla
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
John Benjamins
Edition1
SeriesDialogue Studies
Subjects
Communication in medicine
Communication in psychology
Communication in science
Discoveries in science
Language. Philosophy and theory
Science
Science in mass media
Social aspects
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Summary:This paper investigates the connection between self-repairs, conversation analytical mechanisms, and the concept of certainty in Romanian academic meetings. The focus is on the design of turn(s) in which the chair and the other participants provide feedback on a piece of writing. The data reveal that at the turn design level, through self-repairs (namely replacing, deleting, reformatting, inserting), the speakers employ several lexical and grammatical items in order to communicate different degrees of certainty.
ISBN:9789027269218
9027269211
9789027210425
902721042X