Publications

Publication details [#31448]

Linell, Per, Margareta Bredmar, Lisbeth Sachs, V. Adelswärd and Ulla Lindstedt. 2002. Expert Talk in Medical Contexts: Explicit and Implicit Orientation to Risks. Research on Language and Social Interaction 35 (2) : 195–218.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse analysis | doctor-patient conversation | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper argues that the different explicit versus implicit orientations in medical risk talk are linked to the different positions of health care experts towards scientific risk formulations and everyday risk perceptions. Data on the implicit orientations to risk question discourse theories that propose that all relevant understandings in discourse are verbally displayed.