Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/14614456231194845
Susy Macqueen, Luke Collins, Gavin Brookes, Zsófia Demjén, Elena Semino, Diana Slade
{"title":"Laughter in hospital emergency departments","authors":"Susy Macqueen, Luke Collins, Gavin Brookes, Zsófia Demjén, Elena Semino, Diana Slade","doi":"10.1177/14614456231194845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231194845","url":null,"abstract":"For patients, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are unfamiliar, institutional contexts involving high-stakes communication in heightened emotional circumstances. This study examines laughter, as one expression of emotion, in an existing 649,631-word corpus of naturally occurring clinician-patient interactions recorded in five Australian hospitals. A mixed methods approach revealed (1) the spread, frequency and producers of laughter, and (2) the functions of laughter in unfolding interactional contexts. First, a corpus analysis showed that laughter in the ED was most frequently produced by nurses and patients, but relatively infrequently by doctors. Secondly, two case studies comprising all the interactions of two patients for the whole duration of their ED visits were analysed in detail to explore the individuals’ contrasting patterns of laughter. The analysis revealed how laughter can be a cue to the affective dynamics of patient-clinician interactions about serious matters, for example, signalling difficult topics and managing anxiety in the ED context. Laughter, and any related humour, can indicate the achievement of mutuality, which is considered a cornerstone of genuine shared decision-making and patient participation in their own care. Therefore, the findings suggest that a sensitive responsiveness to patient-initiated laughter, and any associated humour, may promote patient-centred relationships in clinical interactions.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140046785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1177/14614456241233894
Chunhui Zhang
{"title":"Book review: Patrizia Anesa and Jan Engberg (eds), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse: New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices","authors":"Chunhui Zhang","doi":"10.1177/14614456241233894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241233894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"265 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1177/14614456241233854
Jiayu Han
{"title":"Book review: Mark Jary, Nothing is Said: Utterance and Interpretation","authors":"Jiayu Han","doi":"10.1177/14614456241233854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241233854","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1177/14614456241233855
Baorong Huang
{"title":"Book review: Simon Statham, Critical Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Power in Language","authors":"Baorong Huang","doi":"10.1177/14614456241233855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241233855","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1177/14614456241233856
Jinge Song
{"title":"Book review: Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, James R Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A Smith, and Michele Zappavigna, Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application","authors":"Jinge Song","doi":"10.1177/14614456241233856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241233856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"265 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1177/14614456241230253
Andrew J Guydish, Allison Nguyen, Jean E Fox Tree
{"title":"Discourse markers in small talk and tasks","authors":"Andrew J Guydish, Allison Nguyen, Jean E Fox Tree","doi":"10.1177/14614456241230253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241230253","url":null,"abstract":"Discourse markers help people navigate conversations. We tested how the use of five discourse markers – so, but, oh, I think, and like – was influenced by communication medium (text, phone, videoconferencing) and conversation type (task-related conversation or small talk). Additionally, we tested whether these discourse markers influenced the amount of words contributed throughout the conversation and how interlocutors felt about their conversations. These discourse markers were used more while working on a task compared to casual chat during a phone conversation, but less while working on a task compared to casual chat during instant messaging and videoconferencing conversations. We observed no relationships between discourse marker use and the amount participants contributed to their conversations, nor did we observe relationships between discourse marker use and conversational appraisals in the phone or videoconferencing conversations. We observed a trending relationship in instant messaging conversations where the more discourse markers used, the more communicators enjoyed their conversations. The work presented here expands understanding of discourse markers by documenting variation by setting and task type. The findings support the argument that discourse markers are used to negotiate conversations.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"184 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139949316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1177/14614456231224082
Takeshi Hiramoto
{"title":"Framing offer-related actions as assistance at jewelry stores in Japan","authors":"Takeshi Hiramoto","doi":"10.1177/14614456231224082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231224082","url":null,"abstract":"While most of the studies on assistance in talk-in-interaction from the conversation analytic perspective presuppose that the actor who receives assistance already has or is expected to have problems, issues, needs, or demands, assistance can be offered without the expression or existence of plausible expectations of problems, issues, needs, or demands. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, this study explores how service providers frame their offer-related actions as assistance without the customer’s expression of concrete needs or demands or their expected emergence by analyzing the sequences in which salespersons offered customers to try the jewelry. The results of the analysis show that salespersons were motivated to execute pull-based offer-related actions in which assistance is provided in response to the expression or anticipation of customer needs, as they could lead to successful sales outcomes. Salespersons employed various techniques to frame their offer-related actions as assistance.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139949184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1177/14614456231223147
David Monteiro, Oriana Rainho Brás, Michel Binet
{"title":"Time-oriented decisions in Palliative Care team meetings","authors":"David Monteiro, Oriana Rainho Brás, Michel Binet","doi":"10.1177/14614456231223147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231223147","url":null,"abstract":"In a wide diversity of workplaces time and temporality are an omnirelevant feature of the praxeological and material environment, as observable by the pervasiveness of chrono-metrical and chronological technologies and artifacts, and by workers’ orientation to matters of punctuality, productivity and other aspects of task dispatch and managerial organization. Professionals’ orientation to time takes an additional complexity in healthcare settings, given the multiple temporalities involved – biological, institutional, social – and the implications of timely professional intervention in the progression of patients’ health. In palliative care, we argue, a practical concern with time and temporality is a constitutive feature of the work of professionals and teams, visible in and built in their interactions. Furthermore, such orientation to time is related to the collective production of justifications for actions. Drawing on conversation analysis of a corpus of audio recordings, we examine how, in team meetings and interactions with other healthcare staff, palliative care professionals make sense of patients’ end of life trajectories in a situated and joint manner, grounding their proposals for action in terms of timeliness – or lack thereof – concerning patients’ current situation and prognoses on their more-or-less foreseeable unfolding, accomplishing a valid rationale for palliative intervention.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139949324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1177/14614456231221076
Innocent Chiluwa, Chuka Fred Ononye
{"title":"The #PantamiMustGo political activism: A textual analysis of narrative agency in protest discourse","authors":"Innocent Chiluwa, Chuka Fred Ononye","doi":"10.1177/14614456231221076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231221076","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the narrative structure of the #PantamiMustGo hashtag activism in Nigeria. Applying qualitative textual analysis, the study examines the issues that were made salient in the protests and how they were constructed. Through the analysis of narrative agency, the study finds that activists constructed Ali Pantami as a threat to national security and called for his resignation. Two discourse structures were salient in the discursive construction of Ali Pantami and the Buhari government, namely the use of comparison to link the past with the present and the use of labelling as means of constructing social and political insecurity in Nigeria. This study contributes to stressing the role of social media in political activism through narrative agency analysis in the process of negotiating change by people who feel threatened by the apparatus of the state.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139949453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}