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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

How To Tell When Time Is Up

Chrissie Giles investigates how medical professionals deliver diagnoses of terminal illness: Individual words matter. Professor Elena Semino and colleagues at Lancaster University have been conducting a study of how certain kinds of language are used in communication about the end of life. They’ve created a set of over 1.5 million words, collected from interviews and […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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