Publications

Publication details [#26845]

Youssef, Valerie. 1993. Marking solidarity across the Trinidad speech community: the use of an ting in medical counselling to break down power differentials. Discourse & Society 4 (3) : 291–306.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

counseling | medical conversation | power | shared beliefs | solidarity

Language as a subject

Creole, Carribean

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article deals with the distribution of the Trinidad Creole set-marking tag AN TING and its function of representation of solidarity/shared knowledge in Trinidad medical counseling sessions.