Publications

Publication details [#53360]

Nishizaka, Aug. 2010. Self-Initiated Problem Presentation in Prenatal Checkups: Its Placement and Construction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 43 (1) : 283–313.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | initialization | medical language | presentative utterance | problem solving

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study argues that the position and construction of pregant women's self-initiated prenatal checkup problem presentations are consequential to the manner in which health-care professionals react on them.