Language (Klass)
Using jargon in front of hospital patients.
How do medical professionals reduce the emotional impact of their diagnoses on the patient? (Perri Klass, 2020, p.586)
"Helps doctors be more detached about the life and death situations they face on a daily basis."
What is specialized lexis? (Klass,2020,p.584)
The translation for SCP SOB N/V.
What is “without chest pain, shortness of breath, or nausea and vomiting" (Klass, 2020, p. 585)?
“Threshold Concept: People collaborate to get things done with writing (p. 504). Purposes, collaborators, and audiences influence how we write, how what we write is used, and how meaning is made of what we write (p. 504).
Why do discourse communities form?
“groups that have goals and purposes, and use communication to achieve their goals” (Swales in W&D, p. 546).
What is a discourse community?
Keeping distance from patients.
Why do medical professionals use terminology that the patient would not understand (Klass, 2020, p.587).
Klass argues that the use of medical language is actually learning a new language that is essential for understanding other doctors and being able to communicate more efficiently (Klass, 2020, pp. 587).
What is the point that Klass is trying to make with her writing?
"He dropped his pressure."
"He bumped his enzymes."
"Mrs. Bacon failed at chemotherapy."
What is blaming the patient for their medical problem? (Klass, 2020, p. 585)
"rhythms of activity, sense of history, value system of good work" e.g., annual conferences, first meeting of a new academic year, orientation events
What are horizons of expectation?
Residential, vocational, occupational (Swales, 2020, p. 550).
What are 3 types of “Local DCs”?
The purpose of medical abbreviation.
What is "the linguistic separation between the doctor and the patient" which reduces the emotional impact of the patient (Klass, 2020, p. 587)?
Klass says that using medical language is important for understanding her peers in a professional setting, for distancing from her patients. However, “As you lose that awareness, for better or for worse, you move closer and closer to being a doctor instead of just talking like one” (Klass, 2020, pp. 587).
What is becoming a doctor and a member of a professional community?
"A no-hitter night."
What is "no new admissions"? (Klass, 2020, p.586)
"A space that was unacknowledged before because we did not have a term for it. The term realigns the traditional unities – writers, audience, text – into a new configuration. What was before largely scene, unnoticed background, becomes foreground" (Porter, 1992, p. 84 as cited in Swales, 2020, p. 556).
What is a discourse community?
The DC concept is useful for disciplinary and English language learning because it will help students negotiate and thrive in academia.
Associations that reach across a region, nation, internationally. Examples: Informal: SEO (Short Eared Owl); diverse age, nationalities, occupations, SES and EDU experiences. Formal / professional DCs: TESOL, CWCA.
What are Formal and informal “Focal DCs” (Swales, 2020, p.551)?
Klass says that using medical language is important for understanding her peers in a professional setting, for distancing from her patients. However, “As you lose that awareness, for better or for worse, you move closer and closer to being a doctor instead of just talking like one” (Klass, 2020, pp. 587).
What is becoming a doctor?
Excited because she "cracked the code."
How does Klass feel when she understands "...what doctors said and wrote, and could use the same formulations..."? (Klass, 2020, p. 586).
“MRS. TOLSTOY IS YOUR BASIC LOL in NAD, admitted for a soft rule-out MI”
What is a little old lady in No Apparent Distress who is in the hospital to make sure she hasn't had a heart attack (Klass, 2020, p. 585).
An explicit or implicit hierarchy, structure, and advancement in the discourse community.
What is the DC threshold of relevant content and discursive expertise? (Swales, 2020, p. 555).
“centripetal and centrifugal forces” (p. 552).
What are “Folocal” – local and focal DCs?
Medical jargon and co-worker relationships:
”with any new language, to use it properly you must absorb not only the vocabulary but also the structure, the logic, the attitudes” (Klass, 2020, p. 587).
How do medical professionals establish a “sense of closeness and professional spirit among people who were under a great deal of stress” (Klass, 2020, p. 585)?
Mr. Eponym.
Who is someone who likes "eponymous terminology, the more obscure the better" (Klass, 2020, p. 586).
"Circling the drain."
"She boxed last night."
"Brainstem preparation"
What is dying? What is jargon that goes too far? (Klass, 2020, p. 586).
What were the 6 DC defining characteristics according to Swales in Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (1990)?
"A sense of things that do not need to be said or to be spelt out in detail in either words or writing.
What are “silential relations” (Becker, 1995 cited in Swales, 2020. p.555)?