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Area of Science:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Medical Sociology
  • Health Communication

Background:

  • Medical consultations are crucial for patient care and understanding.
  • The presence of a third party, like a family member, can influence communication dynamics.
  • Language concordance is essential for effective patient-provider communication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the micro-interactional co-construction of power in Spanish-English bilingual medical consultations in California.
  • To investigate the role of a third-party family member in these consultations.
  • To understand how power imbalances are created and maintained through language use.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of micro-interactions within medical consultations.
  • Focus on Spanish language concordant settings with a third-party family member present.
  • Examination of code-switching patterns and their impact on patient participation.

Main Results:

  • Third parties frequently instigate code-switching to English by medical providers.
  • This code-switching renders the patient, who does not understand English, a non-participant.
  • Monolingual Spanish-speaking patients are disempowered, losing control in consultations.

Conclusions:

  • Micro-level interactions in medical settings can reproduce societal power structures and ideologies.
  • The findings highlight how language barriers, exacerbated by third parties, create significant power differentials.
  • Further research is needed to explore policy implications and address these communication inequities.