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Paget, Marianne A. 1983. On the work of talk: Studies in misunderstanding. In Fisher, Sue and Alexandra Dundas Todd, eds. The social organization of doctor-patient communication. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 55–74.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

P. studies disagreements, odd semantic constructions, radical breaks and shifts in discourse topics, and other causes of misunderstanding in the speaking practices of an internist and his patient.