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Publication details [#49140]

Menz, Florian and Ali Al-Roubaie. 2008. Interruptions, status and gender in medical interviews: the harder you brake, the longer it takes. Discourse & Society 19 (5) : 645–666.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | gender | interruption | medical interview | social status

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the use of interruptions as power and dominance indicators, particularly in the context of gender and status, in doctor-patient interviews.