Publications

Publication details [#35500]

Hopper, Robert, Juanita E. Handy Bosma and Jo Ann Ward. 1992. Dialogic teaching of medical terminology at the cancer information service. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 11 (1/2) : 63–74.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialogic | medical conversation | teacher

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study demonstrates how information specialists of the Cancer Information Service use a range of conversational devices to bring medical terminology to consciousness in naturally-occurring telephone conversations.