Publications

Publication details [#5870]

Lacoste, Michèle. 1981. The old woman and the doctor: A contribution to the analysis of unequal linguistic exchanges. Journal of Pragmatics 5 (2-3) : 169–180.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative asymmetry | doctor-patient conversation

Journal WWW

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Annotation

From tape recordings of hospital consultations, several types of interaction between patient and physician during medical interviews are analyzed.