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Publication details [#27789]

Sarangi, Srikant. 2002. The language of likelihood in genetic-counseling discourse. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 21 (1) : 7–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

counseling | doctor-patient conversation | meaning | probability

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores joint scenario negotiation in genetic counselor-client encounters. It focuses on geneticists' systematic recruitment of indirect evidence and inductive inferencing in the production of probability statements, as they attempt to maintain a nondirective stance.