Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Presentations and Introductions -- 2 Presenting Palliative Care -- 3 Querying Palliative Care -- 4 Presenting the self -- Part II: Dynamics of the Interaction -- 5 Irony and rapport -- 6 Codemixing, multimodality, and speech genre -- 7 Speaking for others -- Part III: Some Components of the Consultation -- 8 Setting the table, having an agenda -- 9 Knowing the history -- 10 Prognosis and prognostication -- 11 Concluding remarks -- References -- Index