Introduction The paper investigates the impact of the use of metaphors in reasoning tasks
concerning vaccination, especially for defeasible reasoning cases. We assumed that both …

Metaphors can be used as crucial tools for reaching shared understanding, especially
where an epistemic imbalance of knowledge is at stake. However, metaphors can also …

Although medical information is essential for all patients, information needs and information
processing capacities vary between individual patients and over time and context, within …

Dialogue moves are a pragmatic instrument that captures the most important categories of
“dialogical intentions.” This paper adapts this tool to the conversational setting of chronic …

Objective We conducted a scoping review of the tools used to measure therapeutic
relationship in patients with haemophilia. Background Haemophilia is an inherited bleeding …

Advice seeking and advice giving have been studied both as speech acts and as complex
discursive activities in various dialogical contexts. One particularly interesting aspect …

В работе рассмотрены основные подходы к моделированию профессионального
дискурса и профессиональной языковой личности; уточнено понятие терапевтического …

The paper investigates the epistemological and communicative competences the experts
need to use and communicate evidence in the reasoning process leading to diagnosis. The …

In this paper, argumentation practices will be discussed in view of their potential for favoring
effective information sharing and the creation of 'emergent common ground', ie the common …

The sociocognitive approach (SCA) is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics
research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and socioculturalinteractional pragmatics …