Publications

Publication details [#59085]

Mondada, Lorenza. 2014. Instructions in the operating room: How the surgeon directs their assistant’s hands. Discourse Studies 16 (2) : 131–161.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | doctor-doctor conversation | instructing2 | medical conversation | request

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses the timely, situated, interactive organization of operating room surgery as methodic collaborative performance, depending upon finely balanced coordination between staff members and based on chief surgeon instructions.