Abstract:
The aim of this study was to analysis and synthesis the patterns of speech acts communication between health practitioners and terminally ill patients who are confronting life-threatening in terminal illnesses. Researcher studied and data collection from the research articles since 2007-2015, all of the articles studied in the aspect of communication and interactions between health practitioners -terminally ill patients. Criterion for the selection of secondary sources or documentaries evidence will be consider the articles which has accepted for publication in academic journals that a representative of international databases at Science Direct as a numbers of 10 documentaries were included as a sample. A conceptual framework in this research was 3 theories: Searles Speech acts theory (1969), Watsons theory of human caring (1979), Maslows hierarchy of needs (1954). A qualitative study by content analysis a group of utterances/statements are used in communicative interactions between health care practitioners and terminally ill patients, specific in locutionary acts and illocutionary acts. Data analysis identified speech acts categories for summary of each patterns speech acts. It is found that data analysis identified speech acts categories, the finding revealed into 3 types of patterns: Locutionary acts between health care practitioners and terminally ill patients no difference, which illocutionary acts were differ in the categories of representative speech acts and expressive speech acts.