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Disability and anticipatory discourse: The interconnectedness of local and global aspects of talk
Disability and anticipatory discourse: The interconnectedness of local and global aspects of talk
- Source :
- Communication Medicine. 3:101-112
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006.
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Abstract
- In this paper, I use nexus analysis framework to examine how one quadriplegic man from Oman, named Yahya, directs the course of his present (and his future) through anticipatory discourse. In particular, I analyze conversations between Yahya and me regarding his future as they relate to actions I undertake on his behalf to effect a social change: to secure Yahya, an unmarried man, a permit to hire his own resident nurse/assistant (permits for such hirings are reserved only for married couples in Oman). I demonstrate how Yahya influences me to follow his agenda through constructing a helpless identity in narrative discourse. Reciprocally, I suggest that through the actions Yahya's caregivers subsequently undertake, they succeed in giving him a sense of control over an important aspect of his life (being able to hire his own assistant), and I demonstrate how Yahya subsequently displays agentivity in his narratives. I thus illustrate the interconnectedness of Yahya's anticipatory discourse and his caregivers' (macro-level) actions that cause societal change, as well as the interconnectedness of these actions and the kinds of selves Yahya constructs through anticipatory discourse in private (micro-level) interactions.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Cultural Characteristics
Narration
Oman
Social change
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Identity (social science)
Sense of control
Quadriplegia
Interconnectedness
Caregivers
Tape Recording
Agency (sociology)
Housing
Humans
Disabled Persons
Family
Narrative
Sociology
Nexus (standard)
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16133625 and 16121783
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Communication Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c10808060f6a497cf28c70817b5b734d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/cam.2006.013