An Analysis of Conversations in The medical Context

Abstract

Thisthesisentitled “An Analysis of Conversations in the Medical Context”was carried out to find out some of the basic components of conversations. Themain objectivesof the study wereto makean analysis of opening,overlapping,pause and closing of conversations and to present the frequency of abovementioned parts of conversations. To fulfill the objectives of the study, bothprimary and secondary sources of data were used. For the collection of primarydata, a tape recorder cum player was used. The researcher recorded15conversations ina hospital for the study. After analyzing the data,it was foundthat most ofthe conversations started with situational expressionlike‘do youuse thermometer’ andended with the terms like‘ok bye’, bye-bye’ andmaximally with situational expression like ‘is it normal’, ‘no need to worry’.Itwas also found that the frequency of overlap islessthan the frequency of pausein conversations. The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter includes generalbackground, review of literature, objectives, significance of the study anddefinition of terms. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for thestudy under which the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for datacollection, procedure of data collection and limitations of the study are alsomentioned. Similarly, the third chapter presents the analysis and interpretationof the conversations. The last chapter discusses the findings andrecommendations of the research. The references and appendices form theconcluding part of the thesis.