| dc.description.abstract | This paper draws from a larger research project (OSTERMANN, 2005) that aims at investigating how doctors and patients, who seek gynecological and obstetrical consults in a public health center Southern Brazil interact. The theoretical and methodological approaches that underlie the research study are Conversation Analysis (SACKS, 1992; WOOFFITT, 2005; HUTCHBY e WOOFFITT, 1998) and Sociolinguistics (OSTERMANN, 2003; GUMPERZ, 1998; GOFFMAN, 1995), which propose investigations of naturalistic data. That data analyzed consists of 144 medical consultations recorded in audio and transcribed according to the conventions proposed by Jefferson (1984), as well as noted observations about the investigated institution. This study investigates which identities emerge in the interactions and how they are negotiated by the interactants during the different moments of the consultations (BUCHOLTZ, 1999; BUCHOLTZ e HALL, 2005; ECKERT e McCONNELL-GINET, 1992 e 2003; OSTERMANN, 2003 e 2006). It was verified that different identi | en |
