Rare Dialogue Acts common in oncology consultations

Mary McGee Wood, Richard Craggs, Ian Fletcher, Peter Maguire
2002 Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue -  
Dialogue Acts (DAs) which explicitly ensure mutual understanding are frequent in dialogues between cancer patients and health professionals. We present examples, and argue that this arises from the health-critical nature of these dialogues.
doi:10.3115/1118121.1118146 dblp:conf/sigdial/WoodCFM02 fatcat:5p7qgcqwpbg6dcggbbnhpizq4a