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Publication details [#53851]
O'Malley, Mary-Pat. 2010. ‘So either you have a foetal monitor or you have your waters broken, basically is it?’: Articulating maternity care policy at a midwives’ ante-natal clinic. Language Policy 9 (1) : 87–96.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Kluwer
Annotation
Drawing on the interactive notion of frames and knowledge schemas, this paper demonstrates how current Irish maternity policy is linguistically articulated in the context of face-to-face interaction in a midwives' ante-natal clinic.