36.399, Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Université d'Orléans

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Subject: 36.399, Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Université d'Orléans

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Date: 30-Jan-2025
From: Katja Ploog [katja.ploog at univ-orleans.fr]
Subject: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Université d'Orléans


Institution/Organization: Université d'Orléans

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics
Required Language(s): French (fra)

Description:

Description:

Call for applications : Doctoral fellowship (3 years)
Multimodal analysis of caregiver/patient interaction in the intensive
care unit
Abstract
Through a real-life observational study, the project aims to explain
the conditions for handling pragmatic disorders in the context of
intensive care unit. In order to ultimately improve interactional
conditions in this emergency situation (i.e., where the life prognosis
is at stake), the goal will be to project the requirements for
efficient communication and to clarify the operational conditions for
implementing tools designed to compensate for communicative
impediments (intubation, tetraparesis). The research will be conducted
from an ethnomethodological perspective. On the basis of an ecological
interactional corpus constituted for the study, we will study the
modalities of coordination and synchronization of verbal acts with the
plurisemiotic context.
Keywords
care interaction, linguistic analysis, multimodality, communicative
disability, medical resuscitation
Scientific background
An essential human function, communication is both a complex and
fragile dimension of care. The deprivation of ordinary language
resources for communication is a source of frustration,
dehumanization, depersonalization, loss of self-esteem and stress for
the patient, and accentuates the difficulty of the stay, described by
many patients as a traumatic memory. In the context of intensive care
unit, communication is required in a complex situation where the
patient's vital prognosis is at stake. The intubated patient's
expression is impacted by the endotracheal intubation tube; some
patients are also deprived of gestures (resuscitation tetraparesis,
muscle wasting, oedema, etc.). Finally, because of their pathology or
the treatments they undergo, patients may present comprehension
disorders that can impair understanding.
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools are said to
improve communication. However, their efficiency depends on a detailed
assessment of individual needs, and on considering the contextual
limits to individualization. In a pilot study, the Intensive Care Unit
at Tours University Hospital experimented with the use of dedicated
tablets with eye tracker to assess their potential benefits for
communication. In addition to their opportunistic and minimal
mobilization in many cases, implementation came up against the
reticence of nursing staff, who judged the use of such tools to be
pointless or were put off by the time required to get accustomed.
Objectives and methodology
The aim of the research project is to clarify the conditions for the
handling of pragmatic disorders in an intensive care setting. The
research will establish the communicative needs of caregivers and
patients in a difficult situation, by observing and analyzing the
coordination and synchronization of verbal acts with the plurisemiotic
context: what communicative functions are observed? How do
participants express their impairment or specific need?
With a view to ultimately improving interactional conditions in the
resuscitation context, the aim is to project the requirements for
efficient communication (Freeman-Sanderson et al. 2024 ; Bohart et al.
2024 ) and to clarify the operational conditions for implementing
communication aids: which communicative functions are most impaired by
context-specific equipment? Which compensatory strategies are observed
in interactions? What pragmatic functions can be supported by the use
of an AAC-type technological tool? How do users appropriate
compensatory tools?
The study will be based on an ethnomethodological approach and, in
particular, interactional linguistics, which aims to explore the
functioning of communicative events by questioning the relationship
between language resources, their sequential environments and the
actions performed by participants (Couper-Kuhlen and Selting 2017 ;
Mondada 2008 ). The analysis incorporates a heuristic approach whose
orientation is primarily qualitative and follows the principles of
descriptive empiricism. The empirical data consists of complete
captures of interactions to be carried out in the Intensive Care Unit
(CHU Tours), which will be transcribed and analyzed. The data will be
ecological, in the sense that they “would have taken place even in the
absence of the researcher, and have not been elicited or orchestrated
by him or her with a view to their recording” (Mondada ibid. 884). The
project is leading to the creation of a reference video corpus for
future research into innovative communication tools.
The project is a winner of the Loire-Valley-Health 2025 call for
projects, with funding for 3 years, including a doctoral grant and
equipment. The thesis will be directed by Katja Ploog (LLL CNRS UMR
7270, Université d'Orléans) and co-supervised by Laetitia
Bodet-Contentin (CHU de Tours; INSERM U1246 SPHERE).
Profile requirements
- Initial training in language sciences
- Skills in tool linguistics and/or multimodal analysis
- Experience in field research
- Excellent writing skills in French
- Very good English language skills
- Autonomy in work organization
- Good interpersonal skills
- Mobility (Tours/Orléans and international)
Beginning of contract: October 1, 2025.

Application Deadline: 07-Mar-2025

Mailing Address for Applications:
        Prof.Dr. Katja Ploog
        katja.ploog at univ-orleans.fr
        Université d'Orléans
        LLL (UMR 7270 CNRS)
        10 rue de Tours
        F - 45065 Orléans Cedex
        France

Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Katja Ploog



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