Jeffrey D. Robinson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jeffrey D. Robinson plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 11. Renewing a social action in US primary care: One sequential context when actions formatted as polar questions do not require polar answers Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts, Bolden, Galina B., John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 328–349 | Chapter
We consider a specific polar-interrogative offer by physicians (e.g., Is there something/anything else you’d like to address in the visit today?). We show that in one sequential context this interrogative obligates the production of a yes-/no-type answer, receiving one over 80% of the time.… read more
2020 Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of informational language in health care interactions Register Studies 2:2, pp. 241–274 | Article
Much of the corpus-based research on medical discourse has focused on “involved” language (e.g., 1st person pronouns, discourse markers) and its importance in creating patient rapport (Adolphs, Brown, Carter, Crawford, & Sahota, 2004; Skelton & Hobbes, 1999; Staples, 2016). However, in the… read more