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Chapter 8. Advice giving – terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitors

  • John Heritage und Anna Lindström
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Advice in Discourse
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Abstract

Advice giving is a central feature of many forms of professional-client interaction. This paper looks at advice giving on medical and related matters by British community nurses to first-time mothers of new-borns, in the context of visits to the new mothers’ homes. Current evidence from survey studies and interaction analysis suggests that much of the advice giving in these visits may be a source of tension between mother and nurse and may give rise to problems in relationship making between the two. The present study develops Heritage and Sefi’s (1992) research on the initiation and reception of advice in health visits by describing the problems that both mothers and nurses may find in bringing different kinds of advice to a conclusion.

Abstract

Advice giving is a central feature of many forms of professional-client interaction. This paper looks at advice giving on medical and related matters by British community nurses to first-time mothers of new-borns, in the context of visits to the new mothers’ homes. Current evidence from survey studies and interaction analysis suggests that much of the advice giving in these visits may be a source of tension between mother and nurse and may give rise to problems in relationship making between the two. The present study develops Heritage and Sefi’s (1992) research on the initiation and reception of advice in health visits by describing the problems that both mothers and nurses may find in bringing different kinds of advice to a conclusion.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction to advice in discourse 1
  5. Part I. Advice in academic, educational and training settings
  6. Chapter 2. Question-prefaced advice in feedback sequences of Finnish academic supervisions 31
  7. Chapter 3. ‘You could make this clearer’: Teachers’ advice on ESL academic writing 53
  8. Chapter 4. ‘It wouldn’t hurt if you had your child evaluated’: Advice to mothers in responses to vignettes from a US teaching context 73
  9. Chapter 5. The advising sequence and its preference structures in graduate peer tutoring at an American university 97
  10. Chapter 6. ‘Yes that’s a good idea’: Peer advice in academic discourse at a UK university 119
  11. Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace 145
  12. Part II. Advice in medical and health-related settings
  13. Chapter 8. Advice giving – terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitors 169
  14. Chapter 9. ‘You may know better than I do’: Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital 195
  15. Chapter 10. Requesting and receiving advice on the telephone: An analysis of telephone helplines in Australia 213
  16. Chapter 11. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspects 233
  17. Part III. Advice in computer-mediated settings
  18. Chapter 12. Online advice in Japanese: Giving advice in an Internet discussion forum 255
  19. Chapter 13. Online peer-to-peer advice in Spanish Yahoo!Respuestas 281
  20. Part IV. Cross-cultural and corpus linguistic perspectives on advice
  21. Chapter 14. ‘Advice’ in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspective 309
  22. Chapter 15. ‘Well it’s not for me to advise you, of course...’: Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of English 333
  23. Contributors 359
  24. Subject index 367
  25. Author index 373
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.221.11her

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction to advice in discourse 1
  5. Part I. Advice in academic, educational and training settings
  6. Chapter 2. Question-prefaced advice in feedback sequences of Finnish academic supervisions 31
  7. Chapter 3. ‘You could make this clearer’: Teachers’ advice on ESL academic writing 53
  8. Chapter 4. ‘It wouldn’t hurt if you had your child evaluated’: Advice to mothers in responses to vignettes from a US teaching context 73
  9. Chapter 5. The advising sequence and its preference structures in graduate peer tutoring at an American university 97
  10. Chapter 6. ‘Yes that’s a good idea’: Peer advice in academic discourse at a UK university 119
  11. Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace 145
  12. Part II. Advice in medical and health-related settings
  13. Chapter 8. Advice giving – terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitors 169
  14. Chapter 9. ‘You may know better than I do’: Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital 195
  15. Chapter 10. Requesting and receiving advice on the telephone: An analysis of telephone helplines in Australia 213
  16. Chapter 11. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspects 233
  17. Part III. Advice in computer-mediated settings
  18. Chapter 12. Online advice in Japanese: Giving advice in an Internet discussion forum 255
  19. Chapter 13. Online peer-to-peer advice in Spanish Yahoo!Respuestas 281
  20. Part IV. Cross-cultural and corpus linguistic perspectives on advice
  21. Chapter 14. ‘Advice’ in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspective 309
  22. Chapter 15. ‘Well it’s not for me to advise you, of course...’: Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of English 333
  23. Contributors 359
  24. Subject index 367
  25. Author index 373
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