31.2385, Calls: Disc Analys, Phil of Lang, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:17:02
From: Sarah Bigi [sarah.bigi at unicatt.it]
Subject: A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding

 
Full Title: A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Sarah Bigi
Meeting Email: sarah.bigi at unicatt.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers:
Sarah Bigi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
Maria Grazia Rossi, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

In many studies on communication in healthcare, asymmetry is identified as one
of the primary causes of suboptimal professional-patient interactions. Rather
than seeing asymmetry in itself as a problem (Dingwall & Pilnick 2020), we
consider ‘knowledge translation’ as the biggest challenge for healthcare
professionals. When this fails, the implications are serious: burnout and
frustration for healthcare professionals, lack of adherence to healthy
behaviors and worsened health for patients. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has
shown a particularly painful side of the ‘medical communication issue’, with
governments struggling to get correct and complete information to the
population in order to contain the infection and to indicate the most
appropriate preventive behaviors. Clearly, communication styles that are
unable to address the challenges posed by ‘knowledge translation’ favor
non-inclusion and reduced access to care. 

In this panel, we claim that in healthcare ‘shared understanding’ is a
precondition for inclusion and active participation (Rossi & Macagno 2019;
Tzanne 2000). We also assume that the micro-level of dialogues between
professionals and patients, and the macro-level of institutional communication
are linked and interdependent: on the one hand, a well-informed citizen is
more likely to be a well-engaged and responsible patient, who knows how to
access healthcare services and make good use of the opportunities the system
can offer. On the other hand, patients and healthcare professionals who can
develop trusting and constructive relationships with each other are more
likely to find creative ways of supporting patients’ wellbeing, allowing in
return professionals’ own satisfaction. 

We would like to further discuss the idea that the achievement of shared
understanding through appropriate communication would trigger a virtuous
circle leading to more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable healthcare
systems. Therefore, we invite presentations that address questions such as the
following:
At the micro-level of analysis:
 - which are the greatest challenges in multilingual and multicultural
dialogues in the healthcare settings and how can they be overcome?
 - which are the dialogical mechanisms that mostly favor or hinder the
creation of common ground between participants in a dialogue? 
 - is it possible to describe indicators of misunderstandings/disagreements in
healthcare dialogues?
 - how and under which conditions can technological devices favour inclusion
and active participation?

At the macro-level of analysis:
 - which are the main challenges for public discourse concerning health in
view of achieving shared understanding between institutional actors and the
population?  
 - how should the language of healthcare institutions change in order to
foster active citizenship?
 - how can pragmatic analyses and findings contribute to the preparation of
high-quality teaching materials for medical students?

Finally, is it possible to outline virtuous processes that would allow the
micro- and macro-levels of communication in the medical context to support
each other towards more inclusive healthcare services?


Call for Papers: 

Contributions are welcome for this panel, titled: ''A pragmatic agenda for
healthcare: fostering inclusion and active participation through shared
understanding''.

To submit your abstract to this panel, please select the panel title when
prompted to do so in the submission procedure on the IPrA conference webpage
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com). Length of abstracts should be min. 250 words,
max. 500 words (including data and references).

The deadline for panel contributions is October 25, 2020.

Feel free to contact Sarah Bigi for any questions regarding your contribution.




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