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Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu
[Argumentation in Context 12] 2017
► pp. 109–122

Chapter 7
Argumentation in doctor-patient interaction

Medical consultation as a pragma-dialectical communicative activity type

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Pragma-dialectical communicative activity types
  • 3.Medical consultation as a communicative activity type
  • 4.Preconditions for strategic manoeuvring in medical consultation
  • 5.A case in point
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2017
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