Publications

Publication details [#26621]

Wynn, Rolf. 1996. Medical students, doctors-is there a difference ? Text 16 (3) : 423–448.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | conversational analysis | doctor-patient conversation | question | topic

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Drawing on earlier research regarding topic shifts and cohesion, this paper ranks and characterizes the responses of medical students to patient-initiated questions, which by large resemble doctor-patient interaction.