Mesinioti, Polina, Angouri, Jo, Siassakos, Dimitrios, O'Brien, Stephen and Draycott, Tim (2018) ‘Okay blood pressure now’ : doing leadership and managing directives in obstetric emergencies. In: VALS-ASLA 2018 : A Video Turn in Linguistics? Methodologie – Analisi – Applications, Basel, Switzerland, 6-8 Jun 2018

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Abstract

The paper reports on the preliminary findings of a project on teamwork in obstetric emergencies (TREAT). It focuses on the ways senior professionals enact leadership in their context looking specifically into directives in ad hoc maternity teams from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective.
Although interaction analysis has privileged the analysis of talk, recent work has placed emphasis on the importance of other semiotic modalities and the need for a more holistic analysis of social action. Mondada (2011: 290) for instance argues that ‘interaction and social action have multiple configuring effects on space, both adjusting to it and reflexively constituting its form and relevant features.’ This is particularly relevant to medical teamwork where space, room arrangement and artefacts play a role in work processes. There is, however, a dearth of studies on medical teamwork particularly in secondary care and specifically on the way directives are constituted in and through situated verbal, bodily, and spatial practices. Our paper aims to address this gap.
We take an ethnographic approach and draw on four episodes of video recorded simulated obstetric emergencies. We discuss the ways in which senior doctors enact their professional role and claim control of the situation. Directives are at the heart of this process. We also pay special attention to methodological choices for representing movement in material space.
Our findings show that directives are multimodally achieved; senior doctors draw on talk, gestures, body, head and gaze orientation which build on each other and converge in indexing leadership (or not). We close the paper with a discussion of our next steps and emergent theoretical framework.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Official Date:	21 June 2018
Dates:	Date Event 21 June 2018 Available 7 June 2018 Accepted
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	VALS-ASLA 2018 : A Video Turn in Linguistics? Methodologie – Analisi – Applications
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Basel, Switzerland
Date(s) of Event:	6-8 Jun 2018
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