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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465656603321

Autore

Stivers Tanya

Titolo

Prescribing under pressure [[electronic resource] ] : parent-physician conversations and antibiotics / / Tanya Stivers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-4294-5947-6

1-283-03986-9

1-280-96581-9

9786613039866

0-19-534553-3

0-19-531115-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Disciplina

362.172

Soggetti

Antibiotics

Antibiotics - Effectiveness

Physician and patient

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The Miracle Drug: The Context of Modern Antibiotic Usage; 2. Foregrounding the Relevance of Antibiotics in the Problem Presentation; 3. Alternative Practices for Asking and Answering History-Taking Questions; 4. No Problem (No Treatment) Diagnosis Resistance; 5. Treatment Resistance; 6. Overt Forms of Negotiation; 7. Physician Behavior That Influences Parent Negotiation Practices; 8. Conclusion; Appendix: Transcript Symbols; Notes; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Antibiotics will soon no longer be able to cure common illnesses such as strep throat, sinusitis and middle ear infections as they have done for the last 60 years. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing at a much faster rate than new antibiotics to treat them are being developed. The prescription of antibiotics for viral illnesses is a key cause of increasing bacterial resistance. Despite this fact, many children continue to receive antibiotics unnecessarily for the treatment



of viral upper respiratory tract infections. Why do American physicians continue to prescribe inappropriately

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794776003321

Autore

Meakins Felicity

Titolo

Loss and renewal : Australian languages since colonisation / / edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0103-8

1-61451-879-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (493 p.)

Collana

Language Contact and Bilingualism ; ; 13

Disciplina

409.94

Soggetti

Languages in contact - Australia

Immigrants - Australia - Language

English language - Influence on foreign languages

Australian languages - Influence on foreign languages

Australian languages - Languages - Social aspects

Colonization - Social aspects - History

Multilingualism - Australia

Sociolinguistics

Jingulu language C22

Gurindji language C20

Marra language N112

Warlpiri language C15

Marrku language N45

Murrinh-Patha language N3

Australia History 1788-1851

Australia Languages Social aspects

Australia Colonization History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Maps -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective -- 1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages -- 2. Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government Reserve varieties: The case of Woorie Talk -- 3. Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation -- 4. Place names evidence for NSW Pidgin -- 5. Rethinking the substrates of Roper River Kriol: The case of Marra -- 6. Fact or furphy? The continuum in Kriol -- 7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology -- 8. Beware bambai – lest it be apprehensive -- 9. Reflexive, reciprocal and emphatic functions in Barunga Kriol -- 10 Grammaticalization and interactional pragmatics: A description of the recognitional determiner det in Roper River Kriol -- 11. No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix -- 12. Borrowed verbs and the expansion of light verb phrases in Murrinhpatha -- 13. Gender bender: Super classing in Jingulu gender marking -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.