Background Shared decision making (SDM) is generally treated as good practice in health‐
care interactions. Conversation analytic research has yielded detailed findings about …

Within the study of language and social interaction, the concept of'accountability'-including
related concepts, such as' account'or'motive,''accounting,'and'being accountable'-has been …

Background Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations
between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the …

The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly
complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of …

Reference is a way of relating to another person. In perhaps its barest form, referring
consists of literally pointing to something in order for two people to share attention on that …

People across the world make requests every day. We constantly rely on others to get by in
the small and big practicalities of everyday life, be it getting the salt, moving a sofa, or …

OBJECTIVES: To survey practice and opinion regarding school-based teaching of
communication skills, to summarise relevant research evidence from physiotherapy and …

Psychiatric practitioners are currently encouraged to adopt a patient centered approach that
emphasizes the sharing of decisions with their clients, yet recent research suggests that fully …

Purpose: Health care practice guidelines require physiotherapists to include patients in goal-
setting. However, not much is known about how this process is accomplished in practice …

Sentence and construction types generally have more than one pragmatic function.
Impersonal deontic declaratives such as 'it is necessary to X'assert the existence of an …