Medical prescription: an enunciative study in comic strips

The enunciation based on language, in medical care, for producing a medical prescription

Abstract

This paper emerges in contemporary times from the enunciative analysis of two drawing figures in comic strips, with written and drawn statements, and with expressive characteristics of critical sense with humor. Thus, we reflect on the formal apparatus of Enunciation based on language, in medical care, for producing a medical prescription; in the distinction that involves the I and the You, in the event of a medical consultation; in addition to the reflection between Speaker and Enunciator and when these subjects, doctor and patient, become Speakers/Enunciators. The article aims to identify and analyze written and drawn images, in medical/patient care, between the act of enunciating and the way in which subjects use language forms to construct their statements, through the use of the linguistic system related to medical prescription. The analysis of the figures and the two drawings also expresses the enunciation within an ideological and power formation, socially and historically constituted, in the languages presented, in which one of them is under critical enunciation, in the sense of not

understanding medical writing. The two drawings were found in the source: http//www.facebook.com/facedomala. They are illustrated with written language, which is simultaneously composed of images and articulated with their expressions,during a medical consultation event. Understanding the meaning of an enunciative study of drawings with writings, in the event of a medical consultation, requires finding meanings linked to the act of enunciating, where the subjects of this event are subject to their enunciative movements as the result of a historical and social process that constitutes them.

Keywords: medical prescription; enunciative study; Speaker and Enunciator.