Reflective Writing in Medical Practice

Miriam A. Locher is Professor of the Linguistics of English, University of Basel, Switzerland. She is co-editor (with Franziska Gygax) of Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines (2015, John Benjamins) and co-editor (with Andreas H. Jucker) of Pragmatics of Fiction (2017, de Gruyter).

• 1. Reflective Writing in Medical Practice2. Context and Data3. The Choice of Themes: On Communication Strategies and Challenging Situations4. Communication Skills in Action: From Keeping Eye Contact to Creating Rapport5. Reflective Writing as Genre: A Text Linguistic Perspective6. Interpersonal Pragmatics in Reflective Writing7. Interpersonal Pragmatics and Identity Construction8. ConclusionsAppendices       ReferencesSubject IndexAuthor IndexBionote

Reflective Writing in Medical Practice is a theoretically engaging and nuanced examination of reflective writing by medical students and practicing physicians. Drawing upon numerous compelling and instructive text excerpts, Miriam A. Locher masterfully integrates insights from separate analyses of genre, interpersonal pragmatics, and linguistic identity construction – resulting in illuminating reading for students and practitioners who work at the intersection of discourse analysis and medical humanities.