Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. Part I: Presentations and Introductions
6. 2 Presenting Palliative Care 43
7. 3 Querying Palliative Care 73
8. 4 Presenting the self 91
9. Part II: Dynamics of the Interaction
10. 5 Irony and rapport 115
11. 6 Codemixing, multimodality, and speech genre 135
12. 7 Speaking for others 149
13. Part III: Some Components of the Consultation
14. 8 Setting the table, having an agenda 167
15. 9 Knowing the history 185
16. 10 Prognosis and prognostication 197
17. 11 Concluding remarks 213
18. References 225
19. Index 241