Publications

Publication details [#2144]

Cicourel, Aaron V. 1981. Language and the structure of belief in medical communication. Studia Linguistica 35 (1-2) : 71–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

belief | doctor-patient conversation | narrative

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/stul

Annotation

C. presents an analysis of the relationships between the doctor's progress notes and the medical interviews on which they are based, and of the beliefs about illness as depicted in the patient's narrative accounts.

Reprints

Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd. 1983. Hearing is not believing: Language and the structure of belief in medical communication. In Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd, eds. The social organization of doctor-patient communication. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 221–239.