Popularizing biomedical information on an online health forum

Given the increasing importance assumed by online health forums as a form of doctor-patient communication, this study describes the types of dialogic and polylogic interactions that develop in this type of communicative event, focusing on a corpus of threads drawn from an “Ask a Doctor” forum in the...

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Main Authors: Patrizia Anesa, Antoinette Fage-Butler
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2015-04-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/07_IBERICA_29.pdf