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Claiming power in doctor-patient talk /

Are patients passive, or merely deferent? How does gender affect questioning and topic control in medical encounters? What does it sound like when physician and patient co-construct a diagnosis through storytelling? Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn, a sociolinguist, ethnographer, and cancer survivor, answers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Colección:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Studying Power
  • A Sense of the Moment: Theory, Methodology, Data
  • The Whirlpool Discourse: Many Ways of Claiming Power
  • Quantitative Studies of Power-Claiming Talk
  • Gender and Topic Control
  • A Genre of Questions?
  • Qualitative Studies: Co-Constructing Power and Identity
  • Is That a Rhetorical Question?
  • "Geez Where'd You Find THAT?": Co-Constructing Story and Self in Oncology Encounters
  • Diagnosis as Storytelling
  • Implications for Practice
  • Active Patients, Cooperative Physicians
  • Transcription Conventions.