Using corpus for studying intercultural communication:Some comments on communication in Swedish health care system between non-Swedish physicians and Swedish patients and colleagues

• This presentation is based on results obtained in the project Communication and Interaction in Multicultural Health Care initiated in 2003 at the Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University, Sweden. The purpose of the project is to describe and analyse communication between non-Swedish physicians and their Swedish communicative partners, patients and colleagues, i.e. other physicians, nurses and assistant nurses, focusing on different kinds of difficulties and on positive effects of cultural differences and foreign language usage. A general overview of the results of the study will be presented. Special emphasis in the presentation will be made on the results of analysis and comparison of two corpora included in the study, the one comprising the transcriptions of video recorded interactions between the non-Swedish physicians and their Swedish patients and the other the transcriptions of interactions between the Swedish physicians and their Swedish patients.

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HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)

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