The Reflection of Modality use on Doctor-Patient Power Relation in Vietnamese Patient Information Leaflets (PILS), A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Author: Nguyen Thi Kim Luyen, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai

Keywords: modality, power relation, patient Information leaflets (PILs), Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)

Abstract: Modality as a linguistic property of judgement that language users generally exploit in their proposition. The use of this key linguistic feature can reflect ideology, power, cultural/social background, region, or social status that the speakers/writers want to put in their proposition. On the basis of the theoretical framework of modality from perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday (1994), the paper aims at identifying the linguistic manifestation of modality to investigate how the potential reflection of modality is on the doctor-patient power distribution in the texts as a discourse of Vietnamese patient information leaflets (PILs). PILs, to be the data of the research, is of special importance in the field of healthcare in which Vietnamese PILs writers (regarded as a doctor) tend to make use of this property to establish a persuasive and equal power throughout the texts to manipulate opinion of their reader (regarded as laymen or the patient).

Article Info: Received: 23 May 2022; Received in revised form: 15 Jun 2022; Accepted: 23 Jun 2022; Available online: 30 Jun 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijeel.1.2.3

Total View: 257

Downloads: 7

Page No: 15-24