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A language-first approach to health research : sociolinguistic ethnography in hospital settings
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Mesinioti, Polina, Angouri, Jo and Turner, Chris (2022) A language-first approach to health research : sociolinguistic ethnography in hospital settings. In: Flick, Uwe, (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design. London : SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 798-818. ISBN 9781526484321
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Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529770278.n49
Abstract
This chapter is concerned with the design of language-first studies in health care and particularly with sociolinguistic ethnographic research in hospital settings. We introduce the framework of Interactional Sociolinguistics (IS) for health care enquiry and draw on our work in a Major Trauma Centre in the UK to illustrate its affordances for research in emergency healthcare contexts. We show examples of IS data analysis and pay attention to the researcher's transition from an outsider to a legitimised participant and the implications for data collection and analysis. We propose a spatiotemporal approach for capturing the researcher's position in the field and the contextual reading of the data. The principles we discuss are transferrable to other emergency contexts; they are well aligned with the priorities of qualitative research in health care and, as such, aspire to pave the way for more studies from the approach we are advocating. We close the chapter by making a case for a collaborative approach to sociolinguistic ethnographic designs, where researchers and participants co-design and co-own the research agenda.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications Ltd | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781526484321 | ||||
| Book Title: | The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design | ||||
| Editor: | Flick, Uwe | ||||
| Official Date: | 31 March 2022 | ||||
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| Volume: | 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 798-818 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.4135/9781529770278.n49 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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