Interpersonal Conversation Analysis of Physician Identity Construction Based on Doctor-patient Corpus

Abstract

In recent years, the use of identity construction theory to study institutional conversation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of pragmatics. Based on the real doctor-patient conversation corpus, this study analyzes how doctors construct their identity in the special context of doctor-patient conversation from the perspective of interpersonal pragmatics. This article first summarizes the four main identities that doctors construct in conversation: expert, comforter, educator and equal partner. Then, based on the four identities constructed by doctors, it analyzes whether gender factors affect the construction of different individualized identities of doctors. This research will provide a reference for doctors to choose a suitable conversational identity. It is hoped that this research will help doctors and patients better understand each other’s communicative intentions and play a role in promoting the realization of a harmonious doctor-patient relationship.