Publications for Jeffrey D. Robinson

Robinson, J. D. (in press). Soliciting patients’ presenting concerns. To appear in J. Heritage & D. Maynard (Eds.), Practicing medicine: Structure and process in primary care encounters. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. [Download pdf]

Heritage, J. H. & Robinson, J. D. (in press). Accounting for the visit: Giving reasons for seeking medical care. To appear in J. Heritage & D. Maynard (Eds.), Practicing medicine: Structure and process in primary care encounters. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Robinson, J. D. (2004). The sequential organization of ‘explicit’ apologies in naturally occurring English. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. , Silk, K. J., Parrott, R. J., Steiner, C., Morris, S. M., & Honeycutt, C. (2004). Healthcare providers’ sun-protection promotion and at-risk clients’ skin-cancer-prevention outcomes. Preventive Medicine, 38, 251-257. [Download pdf]

Roberts, F. & Robinson, J. D. (2004). Inter-observer agreement regarding ‘first-stage’ conversation-analytic transcripts. Human Communication Research, 30, 376-410. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. & Nussbaum, J. F. (2004). Grounding research and medical education about religion in actual physician-patient interaction: Church attendance, social support, and older adults. Health Communication, 16, 63-85. [Download pdf]

DiMatteo, M. R., Robinson, J. D., Heritage, J. H., Tabbarah, M., & Fox, S. A. (2003). Patients’ Self-Reports of Instrumental and Affective Communication in Physician-Patient Encounters: Correlations with Medical Records and Audio- and Videotapes. Health Communication, 15, 393-413. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. (2003). An interactional structure of medical activities during acute visits and its implications for patients’ participation. Health Communication, 15, 27-59. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. (2001a). Asymmetry in Action: Sequential Resources in the Negotiation of a Prescription Request. Text, 21, 19-54. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. (2001b). Closing medical encounters: Two physician practices and their implications for the expression of patients’ unstated concerns. Social Science & Medicine, 53, 639-56. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. & Stivers, T. (2001). Achieving activity transitions in primary-care consultations: From history taking to physical examination. Human Communication Research, 27, 253-298. [Download pdf]

Robinson, J. D. (1998). Getting Down to Business: Talk, Gaze, and Body Orientation During Openings of Doctor-Patient Consultations. Human Communication Research, 25, 98-124. [Download pdf]

Rogers, E. M., Chandran, A. S., Hirata, T. M. & Robinson, J. D. (1995). Television promotion of gender-equality in society. In P. Kalbfleisch and M. Cody (Eds.), Gender, Power, and Communication in Human Relationships (pp. 277-304). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Coupland J., Robinson, J. D. & Coupland, N. (1994). Frame negotiation in doctor-elderly patient consultations. Discourse and Society, 5, 89-124. [Download pdf]

Coupland, J., Coupland, N. & Robinson, J. D. (1992). “How are you?”: Negotiating phatic communion. Language in Society, 21, 207-230. [Download pdf]