Lin Wu

Lin Wu
Loughborough University | Lough · Department of Social Sciences

PhD Conversation Analysis

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Introduction
CA & primary care diagnosis, diabetes clinical interactions, ENT clinical interactions, patient participation in consultations.
Skills and Expertise
Applied Linguistics
Language Teaching
Clinical Psychology
Social Psychology
Conversation Analysis
Foreign Language Learning
Language
Language Acquisition
English Language
Language Learning

Publications

Publications (3)
Abnormality construction and patient resistance in primary care clinical interactions
Presentation
  • Oct 2016
A 30 minutes talk for 2016 CA medical workshop. Feedback from this conference has been incorporated into my paper, to be published in the special issue of ”East Asian Pragmatics”, in June 2017. Organizer: Rose McCabe (Exeter University). Chair: Christian Heath (King’s College London). Participants : Doug Maynard, Anssi Perakyla, Gerry Leydon, Jemim...
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Symptom assessment and patient resistance in primary care interactions in Chinese hospitals
Article
  • Nov 2017
In a study of primary care consultations in Chinese western-style medicine, two recurrent interactional patterns have been identified which are associated with making medical assessments. At various points in a consultation, the clinician may indicate that the patient’s symptoms are ‘normal’ and that nothing is medically concerning or problematic....
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Doctors' Discounting Diagnosing in Chinese Primary Care
Presentation
  • Jul 2015
My aim is to report a striking interactional pattern of diagnosing practice, which appears rather characteristic for Chinese doctors, and which I call ”explicit discounting method”. The theme connects with previous CA work on particularly ’pre-examination diagnosis’, ’pre-diagnostic commentary’, or the confirming or ruling out of ’candidate diagnos...
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