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Publication details [#31446]

Sarangi, Srikant and Angus Clarke. 2002. Zones of Expertise and the Management of Uncertainty in Genetics Risk Communication. Research on Language and Social Interaction 35 (2) : 139–171.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

counseling | discourse strategy | doctor-patient conversation | expert system | uncertainty

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper focuses on risk assessment in genetic counselling and the expert's delineation of his (in)expertise in a single counseling session around 4 strategic moments, via a systematic use of a series of modalized discourse strategies, whilst claiming authority in a restricted knowledge domain.