Talk, Work and Institutional Order (eBook)

Frontmatter 1
Contents 9
The dynamics of interactional and institutional orders in work-related settings 13
Introduction: Discursive hybridity in medical work 73
Medical discourse evidentiality and the construction of professional responsibility 87
Appropriation of voice and presentation of self as a fellow physician: Aspects of a discourse of apprenticeship in medicine 121
Local identities and institutional practices: Constructing the record of professional collaboration 157
The interaction of cognitive and cultural models in health care delivery 195
Introduction: Negotiating and legitimating roles and identities 239
Reconfirming normality: The constitution of reassurance in talks between midwives and expectant mothers 249
Professional neutralism in family mediation 283
The legitimation of the client and the profession: Identities and roles in social work discourse 305
Industrial instability and the discourse of enterprise bargaining 335
Constructing professional identity: "Doing power" in policy units 363
Introduction: Revisiting different analytic frameworks 401
Warriors or collaborators: Reworking methodological controversies in the study of institutional interaction 413
"Text" and "con-text": Talk bias in studies of health care work 439
On interactional sociolinguistic method 465
Hybridity in gatekeeping discourse: Issues of practical relevance for the researcher 485
Backmatter 517