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Linguistic analysis of verbal and non‐verbal communication in the operating room
Author(s) -
Moore Alison,
Butt David,
EllisClarke Jodie,
Cartmill John
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2010.05531.x
Subject(s) - action (physics) , context (archaeology) , medicine , nonverbal communication , linguistics , cognitive psychology , communication , psychology , paleontology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Surgery can be a triumph of co‐operation, the procedure evolving as a result of joint action between multiple participants. The communication that mediates the joint action of surgery is conveyed by verbal but particularly by non‐verbal signals. Competing priorities superimposed by surgical learning must also be negotiated within this context and this paper draws on techniques of systemic functional linguistics to observe and analyse the flow of information during such a phase of surgery.