A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO THE DESCRIPTION OF MEDICAL SPEECH

This article analyzes the pragmalinguistic features of medical speech, its communicative nature, as well as the linguistic and extralinguistic factors arising in the process of communication between a doctor and a patient. The institutional and personal forms of medical speech, its functional characteristics, as well as speech strategies and tactics are scientifically explained. In addition, the importance of mitigating linguistic means in medical speech and their relationship with ethical and deontological principles are considered.