Publications

Publication details [#52520]

Mosher, Catherine E. and Sharon Danoff-Burg. 2009. Cancer Patients Versus Cancer Survivors: Social and Emotional Consequences of Word Choice. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (1) : 72–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | emotion | health | social anthropology | word choice

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Two studies explore the social and emotional effects of different linguistic classifications by undergraduate students -with focus on word choice- of individuals struck by cancer, either cancer patients or cancer survivors.