A Sociolinguistic analysis of the Doctor-Patient Talk in Persian

The present paper studies the power/solidarity relations in the talk between Farsi-speaking doctors and patients from a sociolinguistics perspective. Therefore، we studied the linguistic variable، types of address، as one of the markers for exercising power، together with four social variables: sex، social class، age and education. The application of the variables in every group was statistically analyzed. The results indicated that the power factor is obvious in the talk of Farsi-speaking doctors to patients while the four non-linguistic factors affect the extent to which these markers of power. This is largely in line with the topics in the medical ethics and the results can shed light upon many issues in this scope.