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Language and meaning - more important now than ever
Episode 13

Language and meaning - more important now than ever

Saving Lives In Slow Motion · Dr Ayan Panja

December 9, 202121m 56s

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Show Notes

Language is important in all walks of life and has changed hugely over the years because

of how humans communicate.


In this episode I look at its importance and its role in health and medicine, nuances in language and how we can try to work out what someone means from what they say.


You can cross reference to my episode on Consultations which overlaps with this nicely and covers the way in which we communicate.


Links: 


Rita Charon's work on narrative medicine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1949238/


John Launer’s 7 C’s: https://www.gp-training.net/communication-skills/communication-skills-theory/narrative-based-medicine/


Interesting paper on language, culture and medicine: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=fmch_articles


Pragmatics in language: https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/pragmatics/what-is-pragmatics/

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