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Language endangerment occurs in situations of language shift, where speakers abandon their own language in favor of another, usually more socially and economically dominant, language.
This study sought to explore physicians' experiences of care provision in situations of language discordance in depth.
22 physicians experienced in treating patients in situations of language discordance were recruited from the emergency and internal medicine departments of an urban tertiary-care hospital.
The study deepens our understanding of how physicians decide whether to 'get by' or 'get help' in situations of language discordance, and the dilemmas that physicians can experience.
16 Neither of these studies offers in-depth exploration of physicians' experiences of caring for patients in situations of language discordance.
In situations of language discordance, a physician's decision to 'get by' (vs 'get help') rests on a judgement of whether communication can be considered 'good enough' to proceed and depends on the circumstances of the specific encounter.
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However, those features that interactants attend to in a situation of language use, the Field, Tenor, and Mode, can be generalized into a set of primary systems of Field, Tenor and Mode briefly defined here as: Field: Action, Sphere of Action, Performance of Action.
From this situation of language contact, a new language emerged, now known as ASL.
This school brought together Old French Sign Language (OFSL), various village sign languages, and home sign systems; ASL was created in this situation of language contact.
ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact.
Lewis call the situation of a language's being realized in this way a 'perfect case of normal language use'.
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