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Publication details [#51665]
Mcmanus, Jennifer. 2009. The ideology of patient information leaflets: a diachronic study. Discourse & Communication 3 (1) : 27–56. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Annotation
This study uses Halliday's (1985) transitivity model as a discourse analytic tool for systematically exploring the language of early 20th-century and modern Patient Information Leaflets, in order to compare their Western societal view on medicine as reflected in transitivity patterns.