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Publication details [#26991]

MacDonald, Malcolm N. 2002. Pedagogy, pathology and ideology: The production, transmission and reproduction of medical discourse. Discourse & Society 13 (4) : 447–467.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
doctor-patient conversation | genre | institutional context | medical language | research article | textbook
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how the interpersonal, ideational and textual metafunctions of the three major medical discourse genres -research articles, textbooks and doctor-patient interviews- work with regard to their institutional context.