Non-literal Meanings in Doctor-patient Communication
One of the key issues in doctor-patient communication is how patients understand doctors'intention.On one hand,according to conversational impliciture theory,patients could understand doctors'intention clearly by completing and expanding what doctors said literally.On the other hand,within the framework of conversational implicature theory,patients have to be rational enough to infer doctors'intention by what they said literally.This is because what doctors said fails to deliver what they intend to express directly.However,it is unreasonable to force patients to analyse and interpret doctors'intentions because the negative state of being ill may lead them to misinterpret what doctors said.Therefore,doctors have to avoid the negative impact of non-literal utterances in communicating with patients.
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