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Publication details [#22908]

West, Candace. 1990. Not just `doctors' orders': Directive-response sequences in patients' visits to women and men physicians. Discourse & Society 1 (1) : 85–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | doctor-patient conversation | women's vs. men's language

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Based on research of directive-response sequencing in doctor-patient interaction, W. argues that women and men physicians issue their directives in differnt ways, and that this has consequences for patients' responses.