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Publication details [#7751]
Prince, Ellen F., Joel Frader and Charles Bask. 1982. On hedging in physician-physician discourse. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, ed. Linguistics and the professions: Proceedings of the Second Annual Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Ablex Publishing Corporation. pp. 83–97.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
Analysis of the interaction between physicians working in a large pediatric intensive-care unit, showing the manifestation of a high degree of uncertainty in the medical-technical domain itself (rather than only on the emotional and ethical levels).