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ArticleDiscourse studies2020

Let's talk about pain and opioids: Low pitch and creak in medical consultations.

Peter Joseph Torres, Stephen Gresham Henry, Vaidehi Ramanathan

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Peter Joseph TorresDepartment of Linguistics, University of California Davis, CA, USA.
Stephen Gresham HenryDivision of General Medicine, Geriatrics, and Bioethics, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Vaidehi RamanathanDepartment of Linguistics, University of California Davis, CA, USA.

Funding

UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science CenterUL1TR000002 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI BERGLUND, LARS F · 2012 to 2015
$12.2M
UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science CenterKL2TR000134 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI BERGLUND, LARS F · 2012 to 2015
$3.1M
A clinician training intervention to improve pain-related communication, pain management and opioid prescribing in primary careK23DA043052 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI HENRY, STEPHEN G · 2017 to 2019
$591k
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR000134NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000002NIDA NIH HHS K23 DA043052
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the opioid crisis in the United States has sparked significant discussion on doctor-patient interactions concerning chronic pain treatments, but little to no attention has been given to investigating the vocal aspects of patient talk. This exploratory sociolinguistic study intends to fill this knowledge gap by employing prosodic discourse analysis to examine context-specific linguistic features used by the interlocutors of two distinct medical interactions. We found that patients employed both low pitch and creak as linguistic resources when describing chronic pain, narrating symptoms, and requesting opioids. The situational use of both features informs us about the linguistic ways in which patients frame fraught issues like chronic pain in light of the current opioid crisis. This study expands the breadth of phonetic analysis within the domain of discourse analysis, serving to illuminate discussions surrounding the illocutionary role of the lower vocal tract in expressing emotions.

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Chronic PainCreakDiscourse AnalysisDoctor-patient interactionOpioidsPitchProsodySociolinguistics

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PMID32256188
PMCPMC7111341

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