| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| 2. Doctor-patient Communication | 第9-20页 |
| ·Introduction | 第9页 |
| ·Two purposes | 第9-13页 |
| ·Creation of a good inter-personal relationship | 第9-11页 |
| ·Exchange of information | 第11-13页 |
| ·Analysis of Doctor-patient Communication | 第13页 |
| ·Specific Communicative Behaviors | 第13-17页 |
| ·Instrumental or task-focused vs. affective or socio-emotional behavior | 第14-16页 |
| ·High vs. Low controlling behaviors | 第16-17页 |
| ·Six dimensions to measure doctor-patient relationships | 第17页 |
| ·Patients' socio-economic status and doctor-patient interactions | 第17-20页 |
| 3. Doctor-centeredness and Patient-centeredness | 第20-23页 |
| ·Doctor-Centeredness | 第20-21页 |
| ·Patient-centeredness | 第21-23页 |
| 4. Genre Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions | 第23-30页 |
| ·Theory of Genre Analysis | 第23-26页 |
| ·Definitions | 第23-24页 |
| ·Linguistics and discourse analysis | 第24页 |
| ·Swale's model and its extension | 第24-26页 |
| ·Genre Analysis of Doctor-patient interactions | 第26-27页 |
| ·The voice of life world vs. the voice of medicine | 第27页 |
| ·Previous Studies by Chinese scholars | 第27-30页 |
| 5. Methodology | 第30-32页 |
| ·Patient and doctor population and data collection | 第30页 |
| ·Transcription conventions | 第30-31页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第31-32页 |
| 6. Discussion and Major Findings of the Study | 第32-59页 |
| ·Genre analysis of doctor-patient communication | 第32-38页 |
| ·A typical process of doctors' attempts to take medical history | 第32-34页 |
| ·Supports for Mishler's model | 第34-38页 |
| ·Measuring doctor-centered ness and patient-centeredness through doctor and patient questions | 第38-55页 |
| ·Open and closed questions asked by doctors | 第38-43页 |
| ·Medical questions asked by doctors | 第43-45页 |
| ·Psychological questions asked by doctors | 第45-47页 |
| ·Social-history questions asked by doctors | 第47-48页 |
| ·Conversational questions asked by doctors | 第48-50页 |
| ·Checking-understanding questions asked by doctors | 第50-52页 |
| ·Questions asked by patients | 第52-54页 |
| ·Further discussion | 第54-55页 |
| ·Medical vs. everyday language | 第55-59页 |
| 7. Conclusions | 第59-61页 |
| 8. Suggestions for Further Studies 55 References | 第61-68页 |
| Appendix: sample transcripts | 第68-93页 |
