Using discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health and health promotion: highlighting social constructions of e-cigarettes

IF 3.1 3区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Critical Public Health Pub Date : 2023-04-19 DOI:10.1080/09581596.2023.2201658

G. Wilson, J. Keenan, L. Porcellato, I. Gee, B. Gough, S. Grogan

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ABSTRACT This article uses discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health, focusing on social constructions of e-cigarettes. Due to the ambiguity surrounding the use of e-cigarettes, understanding may be negotiated collaboratively through co-construction in talk. Ten participants, three men and seven women aged 26–47 years, took part in two focus groups in Manchester, UK, where they discussed e-cigarettes. Data were analysed using blended discourse analysis, with a view to identifying dominant repertoires used by speakers. Participants drew from two discursive frameworks to communicate perceptions of e-cigarettes: (1) uncertainty and risk and (2) the social acceptability and stigma spectrum. The ambiguity surrounding e-cigarettes was reflected in the linguistic devices used in talk. This article demonstrates the value of drawing on discourse analysis to better understand the impact of health-related communication by providing insight into how existing messages are interpreted, co-constructed, and assigned meaning through shared interactions.

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使用话语方法考察语言在公共卫生和健康促进中的效用和功能：突出电子烟的社会结构

摘要本文采用话语的方法来考察语言在公共卫生中的效用和功能，重点关注电子烟的社会结构。由于电子烟的使用存在歧义，可以通过对话中的共建来协商理解。10名参与者，3男7女，年龄26-47岁多年来，他参加了英国曼彻斯特的两个焦点小组，在那里他们讨论了电子烟。使用混合话语分析对数据进行分析，以确定演讲者使用的主要曲目。参与者从两个话语框架中交流对电子烟的看法：（1）不确定性和风险；（2）社会可接受性和污名谱。围绕电子烟的歧义反映在谈话中使用的语言手段上。本文通过深入了解如何通过共享互动来解释、共同构建和分配现有信息，展示了利用话语分析更好地理解健康相关沟通的影响的价值。

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期刊介绍： Critical Public Health (CPH) is a respected peer-review journal for researchers and practitioners working in public health, health promotion and related fields. It brings together international scholarship to provide critical analyses of theory and practice, reviews of literature and explorations of new ways of working. The journal publishes high quality work that is open and critical in perspective and which reports on current research and debates in the field. CPH encourages an interdisciplinary focus and features innovative analyses. It is committed to exploring and debating issues of equity and social justice; in particular, issues of sexism, racism and other forms of oppression.