Publications

Publication details [#3332]

Fisher, Sue. 1982. The decision-making context: How doctors and patients communicate. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, ed. Linguistics and the professions: Proceedings of the Second Annual Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Ablex Publishing Corporation. pp. 51–81.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational strategy | doctor-patient conversation

Annotation

Analysis of the negotiation of treatment decisions, concentrating on the medical practitioner's questioning strategies, the patient's use of questioning strategies, and the medical practitioner's use of presentational and persuasional strategies.

Reprints

Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd. 1983. Doctor talk/Patient talk: How treatment decisions are negotiated in doctor-patient communication. In Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd, eds. The social organization of doctor-patient communication. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 135–157.