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Publication details [#50210]
Wynn, Rolf. 1996. 'Symptom' and 'diagnosis' as prototypes: applying the theory of prototypes and the notion of fuzziness to the study of a doctor-patient interaction. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 6 (2) : 275–289. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores how prototype theory and the fuzziness notion can increase the comprehension of the concepts of 'symptom' and 'diagnosis' in doctor-patient interaction.