title: Medical discourse in pathological anatomy.
abstract: The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of medical discourse in pathological anatomy as coherent speech and as a linguistic correlate of medical practice taking into account the analysis of its strategies and tactics. The purpose of the paper is to provide a multifaceted analysis of the speech strategies and tactics of pathological anatomy discourse and ways of their implementation. The main strategies of medical discourse in pathological anatomy are an anticipating strategy, a diagnosing strategy and an explaining one. The supporting strategies are pragmatic, conversational and a rhetorical one. The pragmatic strategy is implemented through contact establishing tactics, the conversational one - with the help of control tactics, the rhetorical one - with the help of attention correction tactics. The above mentioned tactics and strategies are used in the distinguishing of major, closely interrelated strategies: "the contact strategy" (to establish contact with a patient's relatives - phatic replicas of greeting and addressing) and "the strategy of explanation" (used in the practice of a pathologist for a detailed explanation of the reasons of a patient's death). The ethic aspect of speech conduct of a doctor-pathologist is analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Department of pathomorphology, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moskalenko
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tatsenko
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Romanyuk
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Perelomova
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Moskalenko
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends; D010336:Pathology / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards