Tuntuuko, jos tästä painaa? Epäsuoruus, toimintaan kehottaminen ja asiantuntijuus terveydenhuollon ammattilaisten teksteissä
Does it hurt, if one presses here? Indirectness, urging action and professionality in the texts of health care professionals

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the indirect personal reference, indirect urging action and indirectness linked to professionality in the texts of health care professionals who use Finnish as a second language. Indirect statements are typical in various health care situations such as communication between patients and health care professionals and interaction between colleagues. Indirect references are often used to describe the general impact of some occurrence e.g. to a nonspecified person (whoever) or to a certain unde!ned addressee. Indirectness is common also in expressions, where the imperative nature of the request is softened by using indirectness. Indirectness also has a role in professional language where professionality can be expressed lexically, textually or thematically. In this article these issues are studied in the written Finnish texts of qualified health care professionals partaking in the Finnish National Certificate of Language Proficiency tests.

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