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Wojno, Julianne C. 2015. Caregiver Perceptions of Their Influence on Cancer Treatment Decision Making: Intersections of Language, Identity, and Illness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (6) : 640–565.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | family conversation | identity negotiation | language use | medical conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Caregivers' language used to describe cancer treatment decision making of a loved one reveals how caregivers frame their own identity with regard to a patient’s illness (viz. a patient-level personal identity frame versus a relational identity frame). The intersection between language, identity, and disease is debated.