Language and Medicine

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 470-502

  Fleischman, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Humanities; Medicine; Research; Social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948757457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753460.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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