Fabrizia Del Vecchio
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fabrizia Del Vecchio plays a role.
Article
2014 Diagnostic news delivery: A microanalysis of the use of shields Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 183–200 | Article
This paper focuses on the issue of diagnostic news delivery by addressing the research questions of how doctors shield language when breaking bad news to patients and how shields are positioned within the sequential order of these interactions. Empirical research was conducted on a collected corpus… read more