Claiming power in doctor-patient talk / Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physician and patient.

Oral communication.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On the basis of taped interviews with doctors in a private practice setting, the author shows how patients, and doctors, can wield considerable influence in interactions by their employment of verbal strategies to construct power.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. A Sense of the Moment: Theory, Methodology, Data; 2. The Whirlpool Discourse: Many Ways of Claiming Power; 3. Gender and Topic Control; 4. A Genre of Questions?; 5. Is That a Rhetorical Question?; 6. ""Geez Where'd You Find THAT?"": Co-Constructing Story and Self in Oncology Encounters; 7. Diagnosis as Storytelling; 8. Active Patients, Cooperative Physicians; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W

Notes:

Bibliography: p201-209. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772134-6

1-280-45114-9

9786610451142

1-4237-6527-3

0-19-535725-6

1-60256-036-6

OCLC:

236343063