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Implications of Grand Strategy of Politeness on the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Mainland China

Received: 29 November 2016     Accepted: 26 December 2016     Published: 16 January 2017
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Undoubtedly, doctor-patient relationship is supposed to be the most harmonious relationship since it plays a fairly important part in promoting human health. However, in mainland China, doctor-patient relationship has been a serious problem for quite a long time. Every year,many conflicts between doctors and patients are reported. Informative and effective communication between doctors and patients is crucial in that with which doctors can get sufficient information to make a correct diagnosis, to which politeness contributes a lot. For patients, they are supposed to be polite to get effective treatment. For doctors, they should keep in mind that they should be polite as they are providing health care service to their customers. Based on the data of naturally-occurring doctor-patient conversations, this paper aims to focus on the doctor’s side to explore the implications of Leech’s Grand Politeness Strategy (GSP) on clinical communication so as to help build a harmonious doctor-patient relationship in mainland China.

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.cls.20160201.15
Page(s) 27-31
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Keywords

Doctor-Patient Relationship, Politeness, Communication

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