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Publication details [#60119]

Lazzaro-Salazar, Mariana Virginia and Susan M. Barone. 2015. ‘Forty bucks is forty bucks’: An analysis of a medical Doctor's professional identity. Language & Communication 43 : 27–34.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative dynamism | discourse strategy | doctor-patient conversation | identity negotiation | medical conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This discourse analytic study focuses on how a doctor assists his patient to construct her illness narrative while also enacting salient aspects of his own professional identity, to build trust and rapport, uses discursive strategies, such as alignment, repair moves, and mitigation.