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Doctor-Patient Communication

Doctor-Patient Communication

Doctor-patient communication

23.1 Introduction: Selection of Research Areas

Since the 1970s, doctor — patient communication has become increasingly well established as an area of inquiry within sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, initially focusing, in particular, on the institutional frames of communication (Becker-Mrotzek, 1992; Drew and Heritage, 1992; Hein et al., ...

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