Emergency communication: The discursive challenges facing emergency clinicians and patients in hospital emergency departments

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 271-298

  Slade, Diana ^a   Scheeres, Hermine ^a   Manidis, Marie ^a   Iedema, Rick ^a   Dunston, Roger ^a   Stein Parbury, Jane ^a   Matthiessen, Christian ^b   Herke, Maria ^b   McGregor, Jeannette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse; Functional linguistics; Health communication; Hospital emergency departments; Organizational studies; Spoken interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 48449096746     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481308091910     Document Type: Article

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