Publications

Publication details [#60105]

Watson, Bernadette, Cindy Gallois and David G. Hewett. 2015. Communication between hospital doctors: Underaccommodation and interpretability. Language & Communication 41 : 71–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | communicative effect | doctor-doctor conversation | intelligibility | interpretation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Two studies examine inter-specialty linguistic underaccommodation in hospital medical chart entries, entailing interpretability problems, commonly excused by doctors, downplaying comprehension signifance, though it may affect patient care quality.