‘We will take care of you’: Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-473
Author(s):  
Valentina Fantasia ◽  
Cristina Zucchermaglio ◽  
Marilena Fatigante ◽  
Francesca Alby
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Local Hospital ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Tumour Board

Ethnomethodology research has systematically investigated discursive practices of categorisation, looking at the various ways by which social actors ascribe both themselves and others to identity categories to accomplish various kinds of social actions. Drawing on a data corpus of oncological visits collected in an Italian hospital, involving both native and non-native patients, the present work analyses how participants in these intercultural medical encounters invoke and make relevant social identity categories by the marking of collective pronouns in their talk. Our results showed that whilst institutional identities (e.g. those of the doctors, the local hospital or the Tumour Board) prevailed, categorial formulations related to cultural or linguistic identities were rarely displayed in interactions with non-native patients. Conversational participants made very little of their linguistical or cultural background and when they did so, their cultural and linguistic identities were deployed for rhetorical and pragmatical aims, such as testing and negotiating common knowledge and epistemic authority. This study shows how even speakers’ minimal lexical choices, such as marked pronouns, impact the negotiation of meanings and activities in life-saving sites such as oncological visits.

Between Certainty and Trust: Boundary-Work and the Construction of Archaeological Epistemic Authority

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Alonso González
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
On Certainty ◽  
Long Term Study

The discovery of a rock art site in 2008 by an amateur archaeologist spurred a wave of public interest in archaeology in Maragatería, Spain. As new discoveries took place, alternative archaeological discourses thrived facing the inaction of institutional and academic archaeologists. A long-term study of Maragatería carried out by the author serves to explore the construction of archaeological epistemic authority in a context where various social actors compete for dominance. Gieryn’s notion of ‘boundary-work’ serves to analyse the different strategies employed by academic and institutional archaeologists, amateurs and pseudoarchaeologists to build epistemic authority. This article draws on Latour’s affirmation that the legitimisation of scientific objectivity should rely on ‘trust’ rather than on ‘certainty’. Ethnographic research showed that the more archaeologists attempted to legitimise their authority by reclaiming certainty, the more pseudoarchaeology proliferated. In contrast, the work of amateurs restrained the growth of pseudoarchaeology by creating networks of trust.

scholarly journals Examining the representations of social actors in FASD prevention campaigns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Yandt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Mother Blame ◽  
The Way

Through an exploration of public health campaigns targeting the prevention of FASD, I identified and challenged the concepts of mother blame and stigma found within the discursive practices of the medical system. Framed by feminist theory and critical discourse analysis (CDA), I used van Leeuwan’s approach to social actors to name and explore the representations of people depicted within the campaigns. The discussion focuses on how the current discourse on FASD informs the way that people are perceived and explores possible avenues to challenge and shift the way that substance use is discussed in relation to women and pregnancy.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF BASUKI TJAHAJA PURNAMA AND ANIES BASWEDAN IN THE GUARDIAN AND THE TIMES’ ARTICLES OF UNOFFICIAL QUICK COUNT RESULTS OF JAKARTA GOVERNOR ELECTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dian Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Representation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Content Evaluation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Guardian

The aim of this paper is to present a critical discourse approach to compare two articles about unofficial quick count results of Jakarta Governor Election in The Guardian and The Times. Firstly, I will begin with the background analysis of why this issue is investigated and then I will explain how The Guardian and The Times represent social actors, social actions and visual representation of the social actors in their articles. Finally, I will discuss the content evaluation of these articles and end it with a conclusion. It can be concluded that both The Guardian and The Times use similar representational strategy to represent the main social actors. In their articles, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is more activated and more prioritised despite being overtly described as a minority.

Discursive Practice and the Nigerian Identity in Personal Emails

2010 ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Innocent Chiluwa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Approach

As communication by the electronic mail spreads and becomes increasingly common, more and more people are taking the advantage of its flexibility and simplicity for communicating social identity and cultural matters. This chapter, focuses on how Nigerian users of the electronic mails, apply the medium for expressing their identity through discursive means. Data comprises 150 personal emails written and sent between 2002 and 2009 in Lagos and Ota regions of Nigeria by individual email writers, comprising youths and adults from a university community and the Nigerian civil service. Applying socio-linguistic approach and computer-mediated discourse analysis, the study shows that the most common discursive means of expressing the Nigerian identity are greeting forms and modes of address; religious discursive practices and assertions of native personal names. The data also show evidences of Nigerian English in the email messages.

scholarly journals Discourse Construction by Non-Government Actors in Urban Regeneration Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Zubrzycka-Czarnecka
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Deliberative Governance

Abstract This paper employs critical discourse analysis to examine how Warsaw citizens (residents) perceived and organized the narratives of their participation in the governance of urban regeneration between 2004 and 2016 and how this evolved over that period. The study reveals citizens’ discursive practices, such as the construction of positive and negative identities of the relevant social actors, the binary opposition between ‘us and them’, the development of new interpretations of urban regeneration, and finally, the gradual elaboration of a model of empowered citizenship. Drawing on the concept of democratic urban regeneration policymaking, the research suggests that in the case of Warsaw, one can speak of a shift from a citizen discourse of rebellious participation in non-deliberative governance towards one of more consensual and empowering participation in more deliberative governance.

scholarly journals Content Analysis Approach in Discourse Analysis of News Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Agung Farid Agustian ◽  
Jenny Njaju Malik ◽  
Untung Yuwono
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
News Content ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Asymmetric Power

This paper aims to explain how the content of the analysis can be used as a framework for investigating the ideologies contained in the text, especially in the reporting of election. The problem in the current ideological discourse analysis is that there is no explicit and systematic method of explaining ideology and discourse criticism to be unscientific. The research question in this paper how the content analysis framework is presented in the news? How the content analysis framework consists of a content analysis framework leading to prescriptive objectives in the form of a news content unit? In this paper, research data were taken from the 2018 West Java governor election campaign news text from online newspapers. The results of the research were news content raised topics such as social actors namely figure and groups, and also social practice namely politics, and social actions. The ideology presented in the news was an imbalance in term of the frequency of reporting in the news. The imbalance result was related to asymmetric power ideology in the newspaper.

scholarly journals IDENTITAS SOSIAL DAN KEARIFAN LOKAL PADA KUMPULAN CERPEN CELURIT HUJAN PANAS KARYA ZAINUL MUTTAQIN [Social Identity and Local Wisdom in The Collection of Short Stories Celurit Hujan Panas By Zainul Muttaqin]

TOTOBUANG ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-313
Author(s):  
Bayu Suta Wardianto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
The Social

Social society and socio-culture cannot be separated from each other. Therefore, literature was born as a product of society and culture. From these literary works, literary teaching materials with social and cultural background can be made. This study explains the social identity and local wisdom contained in the collection of Celurit Hujan Panas short stories by Zainul Muttaqin. In this study, the method used is the quality desriptive method. The data used comes from quotes on a collection of short stories of Celurit Hujan Panas. This research used listening and note-taking techniques. Research data analysis started from presenting the data, reducing the data, and analyzing conclusions. The results of this study show that the social identity contained in the story are namely (1) social structure, (2) social behavior, and (3) ontological definitions. Moreover, the values of local wisdom contained in the story are (1) culture, (2) beliefs, and (3) social values. Sosial masyarakat dan sosial budaya tidak bisa dipisahkan satu sama lain. Karena itulah, sastra lahir sebagai produk dari sosial dan budaya. Dari karya sastra tersebut, dapat dibuat bahan ajar sastra berlatar sosial dan budaya. Penelitian ini menjelaskan tentang identitas sosial dan kearifan lokal yang terkandung dalam kumpulan cerpen Celurit Hujan Panas karya Zainul Muttaqin. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu metode deksriptif kualititatif. Data yang digunakan berasal dari kutipan pada kumpulan cerpen Celurit Hujan Panas. Penelitian menggunakan teknik simak dan catat. Analisis data penelitian dimulai dari menyajikan data, mereduksi data, dan kesimpulan analisis. Penelitian ini menunjukkan hasil bahwa identitas sosial yang terkandung yaitu (1) struktur sosial, (2) tingkah laku sosial, dan (3) definisi ontologis. Nilai kearifan lokal yang terkandung adalah (1) nilai budaya, (2) kepercayaan, dan (3) nilai sosial. 

scholarly journals Processing of a spoken narrative in the human brain is shaped by family cultural background

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hakonen ◽  
A. Ikäheimonen ◽  
A. Hultèn ◽  
J. Kauttonen ◽  
M. Koskinen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Brain Areas ◽  
Narrative Processing ◽  
The Brain

ABSTRACTUsing neuroimaging, we studied influence of family cultural background on processing of an audiobook in human brain. The audiobook depicted life of two young Finnish men, one with the Finnish and the other with the Russian family background. Shared family cultural background enhanced similarity of narrative processing in the brain at prelexical, word, sentence, and narrative levels. Similarity was also enhanced in brain areas supporting imagery. The cultural background was further reflected as semantic differences in word lists by which the subjects described what had been on their minds when they heard the audiobook during neuroimaging. Strength of social identity shaped word, sentence, and narrative level processing in the brain. These effects might enhance mutual understanding between persons who share family cultural background and social identity and, conversely, deteriorate between-group mutual understanding in modern multicultural societies wherein native speakers of a language may assume highly similar understanding.

scholarly journals Examining the representations of social actors in FASD prevention campaigns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Yandt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Mother Blame ◽  
The Way

Through an exploration of public health campaigns targeting the prevention of FASD, I identified and challenged the concepts of mother blame and stigma found within the discursive practices of the medical system. Framed by feminist theory and critical discourse analysis (CDA), I used van Leeuwan’s approach to social actors to name and explore the representations of people depicted within the campaigns. The discussion focuses on how the current discourse on FASD informs the way that people are perceived and explores possible avenues to challenge and shift the way that substance use is discussed in relation to women and pregnancy.

CURRENT SUICIDAL SITUATIONS WITHIN THE ROMANIAN AREA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
DUMITRU STAN
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Mitigating Circumstances

This article has been focussed on presentation of an older sociological issue – committing suicide /killing oneself – within new interpretative contexts specific to current Romanian society. The argumentation is therefore developed towards attracting three sustainable conclusions: a. right to property over one’s own body should not metamorphose into individual’s right to kill himself; b) no matter how many logical arguments we might have for committing suicide as a normal fact, it will naturally remain a pathological social fact; c. social actions against suiciding cannot otherwise be but ante factum. Consequently, social actors should be informed and get awareness on suicidal risk factors within the environment they are living in. This last aspect shall occupy the most part of the pages of this article. The conclusion of the whole approach is that no matter how many justifications, excuses and mitigating circumstances we may find, the suicidal act cannot be otherwise but traumatising and condemnable to society.

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