Talking to/through the baby to produce and manage disaffiliation during well-child visits
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Claudia Zanini
Abstract
Relying on multimodal conversation analysis, this chapter examines the sequential and collaborative deployment of talking to/through the baby to produce and manage disaffiliation during well-child visits. We argue that this practice is oriented to and constitutes disaffiliation as a restricted activity preempted, mitigated and limited by the participants of the visits. It makes relevant and conciliates the medical, interactional and relational constraints of the visits and contributes to their institutional specificity. The chapter concentrates on three nurse-baby-mother interaction sequences drawn from a corpus of video recordings of well-child visits at a healthcare centre in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.
Abstract
Relying on multimodal conversation analysis, this chapter examines the sequential and collaborative deployment of talking to/through the baby to produce and manage disaffiliation during well-child visits. We argue that this practice is oriented to and constitutes disaffiliation as a restricted activity preempted, mitigated and limited by the participants of the visits. It makes relevant and conciliates the medical, interactional and relational constraints of the visits and contributes to their institutional specificity. The chapter concentrates on three nurse-baby-mother interaction sequences drawn from a corpus of video recordings of well-child visits at a healthcare centre in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Producing and managing restricted activities 1
- Assessments, interrogatives and semi-scripted talk in managing a restriction on advising 45
- Avoiding giving advice in telephone counselling for children and young people 83
- Withholding explicit assessments in tourist-office talk 115
- “But whose side are you on?” 151
- “Don’t tell him just help him” 181
- “I’ll suggest that to your doctor” 205
- Linguistic and interactional restrictions in an outpatient clinic 239
- Responses to indirect complaints as restricted activities in Therapeutic Community meetings 271
- Talking to/through the baby to produce and manage disaffiliation during well-child visits 305
- Concessions in audiology 337
- Transcription conventions 369
- Notes on contributors 371
- Author index 375
- Subject index 379
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Producing and managing restricted activities 1
- Assessments, interrogatives and semi-scripted talk in managing a restriction on advising 45
- Avoiding giving advice in telephone counselling for children and young people 83
- Withholding explicit assessments in tourist-office talk 115
- “But whose side are you on?” 151
- “Don’t tell him just help him” 181
- “I’ll suggest that to your doctor” 205
- Linguistic and interactional restrictions in an outpatient clinic 239
- Responses to indirect complaints as restricted activities in Therapeutic Community meetings 271
- Talking to/through the baby to produce and manage disaffiliation during well-child visits 305
- Concessions in audiology 337
- Transcription conventions 369
- Notes on contributors 371
- Author index 375
- Subject index 379
