Discourse in Helping Professions
| Number: | P58 |
| Organizer: | Rettinger, Sabine |
| Co-Organizer: | Yasmin Aksu, Eva-Maria Graf |
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| The analysis of institutional and professional talk has been a prominent topic in Conversation Analysis. As illustrated by Drew & Heritage(1992), Heritage & Maynard (eds.) (2006), or Peräkylä et al.(2008), professional formats are co-constructed in and through the emerging talk between participants. This panel aims to bring together cutting-edge research in a particular field of professional talk, the discourse of helping professions. Recent years have witnessed in-depth CA-based research on psychotherapy and doctor-patient interaction focusing e.g. on the characteristics of formulations in psychotherapy or the delivering of good and bad news in medical contexts. Presentations of this panel will both contribute to the current state of the art in research on psychotherapy and medical communication, and will introduce us to less researched types of helping professions such as business coaching, supervision, business consulting and counseling. In particular, we wish to address the following issues: • To what extent are discursive features generalizable across the different helping formats? • The importance of relational aspects as captured in the ‘therapeutic alliance’ across the different helping interactions • Multimodal interaction in the helping professions • The local construction and negotiation of the particular professional and discursive identities • Gendered practices in professional helping and caring • The practical applicability of research findings in professional education and development Inviting empirical work based on CA and related methodologies, we aspire to advance our understanding of the linguistic and discursive enacting of professional helping and caring in the fields of psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, supervision, doctor-patient interaction, nurse-patient interaction etc. |
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