Objective To examine how palliative medicine doctors engage patients in end-of-life
(hereon, EoL) talk. To examine whether the practice of “eliciting and responding to cues” …

For Communication scholars, the study of language dates back to the 4th and 5th centuries
bc. 1 In Greek and Roman society, skilled orators such as Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Cicero …

In this article, I tell the story of an interview encounter I had in a previous study with a
hospice patient. Even though I had prepared for our interaction, Meredith corrected me for all …

This chapter first takes a critical look at patterns of communication between suicidal patients
and health professionals, particularly focusing on the traditional medical model and its …

In the current study, the authors expanded on a program of qualitative inquiry exploring final
conversations (FCs) to the understudied population of children/adolescents. Participants …

Communication at the end of life poses important challenges for patients, families, and
caregivers. Previous research on end-of-life communication has concentrated on areas …

The purpose of this paper is to present introductory steps for conducting discursive analysis
in examining the systemic creation of meaning. Incorporating both conversation analysis …

Narrative messaging research has demonstrated that story outcome (eg, whether the main
character lives or dies) can impact audience behavior, but more research explicating and …

Conducting qualitative interviews with seriously ill individuals about end-of-life issues is
challenging for interviewers seeking to understand the problems, processes, and …

Objectives To describe how multiple goals theory can be used as a reliable and valid
measure (ie, coding scheme) of the quality of conversations about end-of-life issues …