31.2694, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2694, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:35:02
From: Jana Declercq [j.h.m.declercq at rug.nl]
Subject: Ideology and Language in Health Discourses and Health Care Interactions

 
Full Title: Ideology and Language in Health Discourses and Health Care Interactions 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Jana Declercq
Meeting Email: j.h.m.declercq at rug.nl

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This panel addresses how ideology comes into play in health care interactions
and/or in discourses about health. We define ideology as assumptions,
expectations and frames that allow individuals to make sense of what is going
on beyond the sole here-and-now of a single event, beliefs which contribute to
the realisation and interpretation of individuals’ actions (Hanks 2005). We
focus on two kinds of ideologies in the context of health discourses. First,
we examine language ideologies, e.g. of what interaction in health care should
look like. For instance, the asymmetry in communication between doctor and
patient is often problematized, in favour of a more equal, patient-centred
approach, in communication training in health programmes. However, there may
be “good organizational reasons for what appears to be medical dominance”
(Pilnick and Dingwall 2011: 1378), because of the topic and tasks of medical
interactions, and that patients co-construct the relationship as asymmetrical.
Likewise, number of health campaigns opt for communication strategies based on
a virtually acontextual vision of decision-making (Merminod 2020), echoing the
“view of communication as the public ‘airing’ of ideas that started out as
privately conceived and individually owned” (Duranti 2005: 411).

Secondly, health discourses are shaped and shape ideologies of health and
illness (Jones 2013). Being healthy or ill is more than the biomechanical
reality of viruses or traceable tissue injury (Briggs and Hallin 2018;
Declercq 2018). It also entails our shared understandings and evaluations of
what constitutes as health and illness; of particular illnesses; and of how
treatment should be approached. These understandings and assumptions can be an
important site of friction in health discourses and interactions. Health and
illness are sometimes understood differently in the public sphere than in the
medical world; illnesses, treatments and patients (groups) can come with
stigma or taboo. As these understandings and evaluations are essentially
discursive, a linguistic/language perspective is crucial here too.

Gaining an understanding of how ideologies shape health discourses and health
care interactions, as created, regimented by and sustained in communities of
patients, health care professionals and other relevant professionals, and
academics, thus is important, and can contribute to solving some critical
issues in health care.


Call for Papers: 

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send your
abstract draft (min. 350 and max. 500 words) by 1 October 2020 to the
organizers, Jana Declercq and Gilles Merminod, at j.h.m.declercq at rug.nl and
gilles.merminod at unil.ch.  

All abstracts will have to be submitted individually through the IPrA website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by 25 October 2020. Make sure to select
“Ideology and Language in Health Discourses and Health Care Interactions” as
the panel for your submission. For more information on submission, please
visit https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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