On communication 5 / Om kommunikation 5 : Discourse in professional and everyday culture : selected papers from a seminar arranged by the Department of Communication Studies, on 30-31 May, 1988

The papers deal in different ways with communication in institutional contexts. Two of the contributions are concerned with doctor-patient dialogues focussing, in the first instance of genetic counselling, on the use of incomplete speech and coping with emotions. In the second instance cases of discretion in psychiatric intake-interviews from the side of the doctor are understood as a phenomena where the paradoxical meaning structure of psychiatry is reproduced. The third paper on news interview interaction aims to see similarities and diff erences from "ordinary" conversation.
Övriga författareIvana Markova: Incompleteness of speech and coping with emotions in therapist-patient dialoguesJörg R Bergmann: Veiled morality: Notes on discretion in psychiatryJohn Heritage and David Greatbatch: On the institutional character of institutional talk: The case of news interviews