MONOGRAPHS

Defibaugh, S. (2018). Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency: Accomplishing Patient-centered Care. Palgrave MacMillan.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Greene, P. & Defibaugh, S.  (2022). “Why can’t we be friends: Conflict and alignment in the alt-right” Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 10(2), 269-287.

Defibaugh, S., Gut, S.M. & Weems, E.E. (2021). The new Face(book) of medicine: Medical professionals, social media, and advice giving during COVID-19. Communication & Medicine, 18(1): 66-77.

Defibaugh, S. & Taylor, K. (in press). “Bless Your Heart: Constructing the Southern Belle in the Modern South. Accepted for publication in American Speech.

Defibaugh, S. (2019). “I talked to my doctor:” Constructing the neoliberal patient-consumer in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. Discourse, Context and Media, 28.

Defibaugh, S. (2018). Small talk as work talk: Enacting the patient-centered approach in nurse practitioner-patient interactions. Communication and Medicine, 14 (2).

Defibaugh, S, (2017). Qualitative approaches to the study of medical discourse: Combining multiple methodologies. SAGE Research Methods Cases.10.4135/9781473989146

Defibaugh, S. (2014). Management of care vs. management of face: Indirectness in Nurse Practitioner/ patient interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 67: 61-71.

Defibaugh, S. (2014). Solidarity and alignment in Nurse Practitioner/patient interactions. Discourse and Communication 8.3: 260-277.

Defibaugh, S. (2014). Agency of intention and the neo-liberal ideology in diabetes narratives. Texas Linguistic Forum 57 (2014): 1-11. <http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/proceedings/2014.html>.