# A conversation analytic intervention to help neurologists identify diagnostically relevant linguistic features in seizure patients’ talk

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 posted on 2019-06-03, 10:30 authored by [Laura JenkinsLaura Jenkins](https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/authors/Laura_Jenkins/4716894), Markus Reuber

Recent Conversation Analytic work has revealed that there are systematic
differences between the ways in which patients with epilepsy and patients
with “psychogenic” non-epileptic seizures (NES) describe their seizure
experiences. But these differences may not become apparent if patients are
exposed to traditional fact-oriented questioning. This article describes a oneday intervention workshop, informed by Conversation Analysis, which was
designed to help doctors change their history-taking style and solicit
diagnostically useful narrative features. A comparison of video-recordings of
38 routine consultations before the intervention, and 20 consultations after
it, showed that the intervention had the desired effect. Doctors' problem
presentation solicitation changed, and the patient responses were better
suited to revealing diagnostically-relevant features of their talk. Data in
British English.

## Funding

### This project was funded by Epilepsy Action.

## History

## School

- Social Sciences

## Department

- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

## Published in

Research on Language and Social Interaction

## Volume

47

## Issue

3

## Pages

266 - 279

## Citation

JENKINS, L. and REUBER, M., 2014. A conversation analytic intervention to help neurologists identify diagnostically relevant linguistic features in seizure patients’ talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 47(3), pp. 266 - 279.

## Publisher

© Taylor and Francis

## Version

- AM (Accepted Manuscript)

## Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

## Publication date

2014

## Notes

This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research on Language and Social Interaction on 06 Aug 2014 available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2014.925664

## DOI

- <https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2014.925664>

## ISSN

0835-1813

## eISSN

1532-7973

## Publisher version

- <https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2014.925664>

## Language

- en

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