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Publication details [#35080]

Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy. 1992. Topic transitions in physician-patient interviews: Power, gender, and discourse change. Language in Society 21 (3) : 409–426.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | gender | power | topic change

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores how topic changes are made in 12 doctor-patient encounters between eight men and women physicians and their female patients. Two major types of transitions are distinguished: reciprocal and unilateral; the ratios of these types differ greatly according to the doctor's gender.