Palliative Care Conversations: Clinical and Applied Linguistic Perspectives

This Book Will Be The First Of Its Kind To Offer Intensive Conversation Analysis On Patient-clinician Interactions In The Context Of Palliative Medicine. The Book Focuses On A Series Of Individual Case Studies Of Conversations That Revolve, In Each Case, Around One Key Critical Term That Is Often Evoked Or Understood Differently By Clinicians And Patients. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Presenting Palliative Care -- 3 Querying Palliative Care -- 4 Presenting The Self -- 5 Irony And Rapport -- 6 Codemixing, Multimodality, And Speech Genre -- 7 Speaking For Others -- 8 Setting The Table, Having An Agenda -- 9 Knowing The History -- 10 Prognosis And Prognostication -- 11 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index David Gramling, Robert Gramling. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.