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Publication details [#23059]
Erickson, Frederick and William Rittenberg. 1987. Topic control and person control: A thorny problem for foreign physicians in interaction with american patients. Discourse Processes 10 (4) : 401–415. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
The authors examine difficulties experienced by foreign physicians in interaction with American patients, resulting from the tension between authority (doctor-patient inequality) and the practice of communicative equality in American society.