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Publication details [#23035]
Snow, Catherine, Fredi Shonkoff, Kathie Lee and Harry Levin. 1986. Learning to play doctor: Effects of sex, age, and experience in hospital. Discourse Processes 9 (4) : 461–473. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
A report of a role-playing experiment in which four children (4 to 9 years of age) enacted a visit to the hospital before and after they had been hospitalized themselves. The focus is on register and social role acquisition.