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Frequency of different ways of handling word finding difficulties

Frequency of different ways of handling word finding difficulties

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One of the most common difficulties in medical consultations between non-Swedish physicians and their Swedish patients is the problem of finding the right word during the interaction, often as a result of using Swedish as a foreign language. In this study, some of the ways this problem is handled during interaction are presented and the influence o...

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... quantitative data on the different ways of handling word finding problems in 33 medical consultations is presented in Table 3 below. As we can see, in the majority of cases the physicians successfully recall the words they need themselves. ...