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Politeness in Professional Contexts
Edited by Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 311] 2020
► pp. 85–106

Chapter 4
Take care of yourself

Negotiating moral and professional face in stroke rehabilitation

| Sheffield Hallam University
Keywords: stroke rehabilitation, professional face, personal face, hope work, moral order, stroke patient, facework, medical, institutional role; occupational therapy
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Face, politeness and morality in health care discourse
  • 3.The institutional ethos of stroke rehabilitation
  • 4.Data context and analytical approach
  • 5.Data analysis
    • 5.1The doctor and the good patient
    • 5.2The good patient and the occupational therapist
    • 5.3The good patient in question
    • 5.4Doing hope work
    • 5.5Hope work threatened
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
Published online: 21 August 2020
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