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Publication details [#54984]

McKinlay, Andy, Chris McVittie and Sue Cowan. 2011. How expert psychiatrists formulate criticisms of lay descriptions of psychiatry in front of a lay audience. Text & Talk 31 (5) : 601–618.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | audience design | description | psychiatry | radio

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

Drawing on interviews between a professional journalist and practicing psychiatrists from the United Kingdom and the United States, this study explores how interviewed expert psychiatrists challenged lay descriptions of psychiatric expertise in front of a radio audience of non-experts.