| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) |
| Series |
Language and social life ; volume12 |
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Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ; v. 12.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Presentations and Introductions -- 2 Presenting Palliative Care -- 3 Querying Palliative Care -- 4 Presenting the self -- Part II: Dynamics of the Interaction -- 5 Irony and rapport -- 6 Codemixing, multimodality, and speech genre -- 7 Speaking for others -- Part III: Some Components of the Consultation -- 8 Setting the table, having an agenda -- 9 Knowing the history -- 10 Prognosis and prognostication -- 11 Concluding remarks -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book will be the first of its kind to offer intensive conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the context of palliative medicine. The book focuses on a series of individual case studies of conversations that revolve, in each case, around one key critical term that is often evoked or understood differently by clinicians and patients |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2019) |
| Subject |
Communication in medicine.
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Medical personnel and patient.
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Professional-Patient Relations
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Communication in medicine
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Medical personnel and patient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gramling, Robert, author.
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| ISBN |
9781501504570 |
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1501504576 |
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9781501504471 |
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1501504479 |
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