33.2706, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2706. Wed Sep 07 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2706, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 05:23:45
From: ilse depraetere [ilse.depraetere at univ-lille.fr]
Subject: Doctor-Child Communication: Insights from Pragmatics

Full Title: Doctor-Child Communication: Insights from Pragmatics 
Short Title: IPrA 2023 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Ilse Depraetere
Meeting Email: Ilse.Depraetere at univ-lille.fr
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA) will be held in Brussels,
Belgium, from 9 to 14 July 2023.

Call for Participation:

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

Doctor-Child Communication: Insights from Pragmatics

The panel ‘Doctor-Child Communication: Insights from Pragmatics’ invites
proposals for presentations that focus on pragmatic analyses of communicative
encounters between pediatricians and children in clinical settings.
The medical literature is awash with general guidelines about appropriate
vocabulary to use with children but is less precise about the other tiers of
communication that affect the degree to which the child engages positively
with a potentially invasive procedure. 
In their overview of doctor-parent-child communication, Tates & Meeuwesen
(2001) report that the relative contributions of the child are between 2 to
12%, a figure which needs to rise if the aim of increasing child engagement is
to be met. In addition, the way in which children are addressed can determine
their perception of pain in the context of procedures, and help to reduce
anxiety levels (Kuttner et al 1989). When it comes to the role that language
can play in improving exchanges and thus outcome, the chief focus has been on
the use of carefully chosen terms to instill positive imagery in the child to
keep them calm, positive and engaged in the medical process.
This panel invites linguists to demonstrate what they can bring to our
understanding and thus improvement of these medical exchanges by highlighting
the multi-faceted nature of the most successful communicative strategies. We
welcome empirical papers that will examine doctor-parent-child encounters from
various perspectives, including, but not limited to, (a) the relative
participation of the discourse participants, (b) how turn-taking is managed
(Tates & Meeuwesen 2000), (c) examination of alignment and facework (Aronsson
& Rindstedt 2011), (d) identification of communicative strategies that reduce
anxiety (Krauss & Krauss 2018), (e) the effects of directness/indirectness,
(f) the contributions of gesture and gaze.  The time slot for each talk will
be 30 minutes (20 minutes’ presentation, 10 minutes’ questions). 

If you would like to participate in this workshop, please submit directly
through the IPRA conference submission page (details on
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP) by the 1st November. For informal
inquiries about contributions for this panel, please contact Ilse Depraetere
(Ilse.Depraetere at univ-lille.fr) and/or Vikki Janke (v.janke at kent.ac.uk).

Aronsson, K. & Rindstedt, K. (2011). Alignments and facework in paediatric
visits: toward a social choreography of multiparty talk. In Candlin, C. N., &
Sarangi, S. (eds.) Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions
(pp. 122-142). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Kuttner, L. & LePage, T. (1989). Face scales for the assessment of pediatric
pain: A critical review. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue
canadienne des sciences du comportement, 21(2), 198-209.
Krauss B.A. & Krauss, B.S. (2019). Managing the Frightened Child. Ann Emerg
Med. 74(1), 30-35.
Tates, K. & Meeuwesen, L. (2000). ‘Let Mum have her say’: turn-taking in
doctor-parent-child communication. Patient Education and Counselling, 40,
151-162.
Tates, K. & Meeuwesen, L. (2001). Doctor–parent–child communication. A
(re)view of the literature. Social Science and Medicine, 52, 839-851.

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