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Publication details [#34979]

Aronsson, Karin and Bengt Rundström. 1989. Cats, dogs, and sweets in the clinical negotiation of reality: On politeness and coherence in pediatric discourse. Language in Society 18 (4) : 483–504.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | mother-child conversation | negotiation | politeness

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper uses Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to examine doctor-parent-child interaction and negotiation.