Publications

Publication details [#9370]

Tannen, Deborah F. and Cynthia Wallat. 1982. A sociolinguistic analysis of multiple demands on the pediatrician in doctor/mother/child interaction. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, ed. Linguistics and the professions: Proceedings of the Second Annual Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Ablex Publishing Corporation. pp. 39–50.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | register

Annotation

Microanalysis of conversation between a pediatrician and the mother of a handicapped child during the examination of the child. T. and W. show that the pediatrician balances multiple demands each requiring a distinct 'footing' and associated with an identifiable linguistic 'register'.

Reprints

Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd. 1983. Doctor/mother/child communication: Linguistic analysis of a pediatric interaction. In Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd, eds. The social organization of doctor-patient communication. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 203–219.