Publications

Publication details [#52793]

Overlach, Fabian. 2008. Sprache des Schmerzes - Sprechen über SchmerzenEine grammatisch-semantische und gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung von Schmerzausdrücken im Deutschen. [The Language of Pain – Talking about Pain. A Grammatic, Semantic and Conversational Analysis of Expressions of Pain in German.] (Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 30). De Gruyter. xi+365 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

German

Keywords

conversational analysis | doctor-patient conversation | emotion | expressibility | language use

Language as a subject

German

Annotation

This study uses written and oral data from doctor-patient interactions to examine the linguistic means for expressing (chronic) pain in German discourse.