Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals

Keith Allan

doi:10.1075/pbns.338.10all

Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals

Keith Allan

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Abstract

Healthcare professionals can normally assume that their patients are rational people and approach verbal interaction with the patient as they would with any fellow human being. Common ground is context shared between S (speaker, writer, signer) and H (audience) where S utters U (utterance), evoking context C1 (the ‘world and time spoken of’) so as to bring about in C3 (the ‘situation of interpretation’ from H’s point of view) H’s understanding U in terms of the relevant beliefs that S holds or purports to hold uttering U, i.e. speaking of C1 in C2 (the ‘world and time spoken in’ or situation of utterance from S’s point of view).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare
Subtitle of host publication	Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding
Editors	Sarah Bigi, Maria Grazia Rossi
Place of Publication	Amsterdam The Netherlands
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Chapter	10
Pages	252-262
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027249371
ISBN (Print)	9789027214270
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.338.10all
Publication status	Published - 2023

Publication series

Name	Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
Volume	338
ISSN (Print)	0922-842X

Keywords

common ground
common knowledge
contextualization
shared understanding

UN SDGs

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Allan, K 2023, Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals. in S Bigi & M Grazia Rossi (eds), A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, vol. 338, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 252-262. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.338.10all

Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals. / Allan, Keith.
A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding. ed. / Sarah Bigi; Maria Grazia Rossi. Amsterdam The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. p. 252-262 (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series; Vol. 338).

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