In:Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu
[Argumentation in Context 12] 2017
► pp. 109–122
Chapter 7Argumentation in doctor-patient interaction
Medical consultation as a pragma-dialectical communicative activity type
Published online: 12 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.12.07pil
https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.12.07pil
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Pragma-dialectical communicative activity types
- 3.Medical consultation as a communicative activity type
- 4.Preconditions for strategic manoeuvring in medical consultation
- 5.A case in point
- 6.Conclusion
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