Publications

Publication details [#50991]

Wei, Li and Mayouf Ali Mayouf. 2009. The effects of the social status of the elderly in Libya on the way they institutionally interact and communicate with younger physicians. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (1) : 136–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | doctor-patient conversation | old age | social status

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study demonstrates that elderly Libyan patients interact and communicate with younger physicians according to their social construction which prevails over the interactants' institutional hierarchy.