Table 1

Caregivers’ contribution to deliberation sequences (in both tables, examples have been translated by the author from Italian)

Types of contributions by caregivers to deliberation sequencesExamples from corpus
- Provide information- Fill in:
DOCTOR: What do you have for breakfast? Coffee with milk and two slices of rusk …
PATIENT: Two slices of rusk
DOCTOR: … or biscotti?
PATIENT: No, two slices of rusk, toasted bread
DOCTOR: Ah! that’s a different thing, toasted bread
WIFE: No, it’s not toasted, it’s those slices of bread that you can toast but we don’t toast it
- Specify:
DOCTOR: any physical activity?
PATIENT: well, we walk a bit
HUSBAND: a bit, a bit, now she’s doing a bit
DOCTOR: you do it or very little?
PATIENT: yes, we only go walking
HUSBAND: we go walking in the park
- Request explanationsDOCTOR: … then you wait six or seven days and you record your evening glucose values again
PATIENT: in the evening, ok
DOCTOR: then you wait six or seven days … ok?
DAUGHTER: more or less always one week?
DOCTOR: yes, well, wait I would like to explain to you, it’s not so much one week that matters …
- Request informationPATIENT: so I can take this? Can I take this one normally?
DOCTOR: so, they give it as an alternate to [NAME OF PILLS]
WIFE: but is it the same thing?
DOCTOR: it’s the same
- “Vice doctor,” critical attitudeDOCTOR: you were 77 kilos, now you are 76, I would like a 70. So maybe we can take this year to …
PATIENT: ok
DOCTOR: … ok? This year and we try by the end of the year, beginning of the next to get there
PATIENT: all right
DAUGHTER: yes, but not in the sense that if it’s in one year to start dieting the past three months
(Daughter: “quindi deve farlo la mattina e la sera? Dopo cena?” … “no così lo so anch’io e la controllo” (P_2-2))
- Shift to an irrelevant topicPATIENT: I have to look after my grandchildren, one is 1 the other is 1 and a half … yeah, well, with them I do move around a lot, but …
DOCTOR: but probably it’s not the same …
PATIENT: Yeah, it’s not the same I was doing before
HUSBAND: walking … I go walking too

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