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This film, shot in two large metropolitan hospitals, attempts to capture the realities of day to day life in hospital wards. It attempts to observe how medical staff and patients interact. In parti...cular to look at the ways language functions in a number of different environments within the same hospital and it's role as an agent of social control within a large and complex institution.
This film, shot in two large metropolitan hospitals, attempts to capture the realities of day to day life in hospital wards. It attempts to observe how medical staff and patients interact. In parti...cular to look at the ways language functions in a number of different environments within the same hospital and it's role as an agent of social control within a large and complex institution.
| Module code and title: | E263, Language in use |
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| Item code: | E263; 03 |
| First transmission date: | 28-04-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:42 |
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| Producer: | Gwynn Pritchard |
| Contributor: | Geoff Esland |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Hospital wards; Middlesex hospital; Patients; Southmead hospital; Specialist language |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73695 |
| Production number: | 00525_6257 |
| Videofinder number: | 2932 |
| Available to public: | no |
