Publications

Publication details [#49937]

Rao, Nagesh and Maria Beatriz Torres. 2007. Disclosure and Truth in Physician–Patient Communication: An Exploratory Analysis in Argentina, Brazil, India and the United States. Language Teaching Research 2 (3) : 279–305.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | discourse strategy | disease terminology | doctor-patient conversation | truth condition

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This comparative study examines the notion of ‘truth’ and the employed discourse strategies in doctor-patient communication on leukemia diagnoses in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina and India.