Talk, work, and institutional order : discourse in medical, mediation, and management settings

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Talk, work, and institutional order : discourse in medical, mediation, and management settings

edited by Srikant Sarangi, Celia Roberts

(Language, power and social process, 1)

Mouton de Gruyter, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9783110157222

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in certain workplace practice and relationships, this book consists of 14 contributions that address the thematic focus of how professional knowledge and identities are constituted in discourse, vis-a-vis a given institutional order.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The dynamics of interactional and institutional orders in work-related settings -- Section 1: Medical practices and health care delivery -- Introduction: Discursive hybridity in medical work -- Medical discourse evidentiality and the construction of professional responsibility -- Appropriation of voice and presentation of self as a fellow physician: Aspects of a discourse of apprenticeship in medicine -- Local identities and institutional practices: Constructing the record of professional collaboration -- The interaction of cognitive and cultural models in health care delivery -- Section 2: Mediation, management and social care -- Introduction: Negotiating and legitimating roles and identities -- Reconfirming normality: The constitution of reassurance in talks between midwives and expectant mothers -- Professional neutralism in family mediation -- The legitimation of the client and the profession: Identities and roles in social work discourse -- Industrial instability and the discourse of enterprise bargaining -- Constructing professional identity: "Doing power" in policy units -- Section 3: Methodological debates -- Introduction: Revisiting different analytic frameworks -- Warriors or collaborators: Reworking methodological controversies in the study of institutional interaction -- "Text" and "con-text": Talk bias in studies of health care work -- On interactional sociolinguistic method -- Hybridity in gatekeeping discourse: Issues of practical relevance for the researcher -- Backmatter
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ISBN 9783110157239

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in certain workplace practice and relationships, this book consists of 14 contributions that address the thematic focus of how professional knowledge and identities are constituted in discourse, vis-a-vis a given institutional order.

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