The number of words spoken by male doctors and male and female patients in a sample of British general practitioner-patient consultations

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 184-187

  Wynn, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consultation; Discourse analysis; Sex topic; Social psychology; Sociolinguistics; Verbosity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030720073     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02813439709035025     Document Type: Article

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