Publications

Publication details [#30507]

Hobbs, Pamela. 2002. Islands in a string: The use of background knowledge in an obstetrical resident's notes. Journal of Sociolinguistics : 267–274.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

background assumption | background information | doctor-doctor conversation | professional language

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper shows how the use of background knowledge in physicians' patients' charts produces text coherence by constructing the shared experience of medical knowledge that makes unsaid things self evident.