Providing a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations, this volume brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation. The authors use conversation analysis techniques to analyze the sequential unfolding of a visit and describe the dilemmas and conflicts faced by physicians and patients as they work through the visit. The result is a view of the medical encounter that reveals the perspective of both physicians and patients rationally. .
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This new and pathbreaking volume provides a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations. The first of its kind for thirty years, it brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation, identifying the distinctive tasks, goals and activities that make up each phase of primary care as social interaction. Clear and comprehensive, it will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, communication studies, sociology, and medicine.
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John Heritage is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Douglas W. Maynard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Douglas W. Maynard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) by Deborah Schiffrin in Front Matter
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- The Social Construction of Literacy (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) by Jenny Cook-Gumperz in Front Matter
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