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Publication details [#45822]

Perrino, Sabina M. 2007. Unintelligibility as discourse accessibility in a Senegalese ethnomedical encounter. Text & Talk 27 (4) : 463–482.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intelligibility | mediation | medical problem solving | ritual

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper considers (ritual) 'unintelligibility' in terms of discourse 'accessibility', stressing in particular multimodal 'access' regulation, using as an example a Senegalese ethnomedical encounter.