| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
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Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| Contents |
Studying Power -- A Sense of the Moment: Theory, Methodology, Data -- 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. |
| Summary |
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 questions such as these in a study of 100 medical encounters, with balanced numbers of men and women among physicians as well as patients. Ainsworth-Vaughn draws upon linguistics and medical ethics to develop a comprehensive theory of types of power. She engages critical problems in discourse theory, expanding our understanding of topic transitions, questions, ambiguity, and co-construction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physician and patient.
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Physician and patient. |
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Oral communication.
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Oral communication. |
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Interpersonal relations.
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Interpersonal relations. |
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Communication. |
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Physician-Patient Relations. |
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Social Dominance. |
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Diagnosis. |
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Patient Participation. |
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Power, Psychological. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy. Claiming power in doctor-patient talk. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97036258 |
| ISBN |
1423765273 (electronic book) |
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9781423765271 (electronic book) |
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1602560366 |
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9781602560369 |
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9780195096064 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0195096061 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195096071 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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019509607X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195096061 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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019509607X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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