Mesinioti, Polina, Angouri, Jo, Siassakos, Dimitris, O'Brien, Stephen and Draycott, Tim (2018) Role embodiment in the obstetric theatre. In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 Jun 2018

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Abstract

The paper reports on the preliminary findings of a project on teamwork in real-life obstetric emergencies (TREAT project) and focuses in particular on how multimodal resources including language and body movements- are holistically exploited in professional role enactment in interaction. Although Conversation Analysis has placed emphasis on the embodiment of interaction (e.g. Mondada 2009) and there is some evidence of the crucial role of embodied conduct and movement in coordinating emergency teamwork (Büscher 2007), there is a critical gap in the research of space using an Interactional Sociolinguistics approach. The need for analysing work space arrangements and the intersection with team communication and professional roles, especially in the context of medical emergencies has been raised in recent research (Dean et al. 2016) and our paper aims to address this gap.
We adopt an ethnographic approach and draw on video-recordings of real-life obstetric emergencies in order to explore the ways in which senior and junior medical professionals negotiate their role in interaction. Our findings show that effective teamwork is embodied and verbal and non-verbal communication are interconnected; spatial design provides the context within which bodies act and move in the maternity rooms, and positioning in this context is part of claiming roles and responsibilities. We show the differences between senior and junior professionals’ embodied behaviour and the impact of this on the dynamics of the team and 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:	28 June 2018
Dates:	Date Event 28 June 2018 Accepted
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	Sociolinguistics Symposium 22
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Auckland, New Zealand
Date(s) of Event:	27-30 Jun 2018
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