Managing topics of birth and death in doctor-patient communication

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1350-1363

  Tsai, Mei Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doctor patient communication; Euphemism; Family history; Language of birth and death

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949439078     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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