Richard Gwyn

Datos Biográficos

ID734728
NOMBRERichard Gwyn
NOMBRESRichard
APELLIDOGwyn
FIRMAGWYN R
AFILIACIONESCardiff University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS34
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1997
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2003
ÍNDICE H3

  • Discourse, the Body, and Identity

    Justine Coupland, Richard GwynBOOKDiscourse, the Body, and Identity2003

  • The problematic of decision‐sharing

    Open AccessRichard Gwyn, Glyn Elwyn et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2003

    Shared decision‐making is increasingly advocated as a means of interacting with patients but there is also a widely accepted view that many factors will militate against this ideal. While some patients may not wish to take on the responsibility of decision‐making, it is also evident that many find it difficult to assimilate probabilities about future events and overestimate the likelihood of some outcomes, especially when terms such as ‘stroke’, …

  • Discourse, the Body, and Identity

    Justine Coupland, Richard GwynBOOKDiscourse, the Body, and Identity2002

  • Really Unreal”

    Richard GwynARTICLENarrative Inquiry2000Citada por: 5Referencias: 5

    The specific narrative feature of ‘evaluation’, as described by Labov and Waletzky (1967/97), is not a discrete and secondary structure, but rather is embedded in the continuous acts of description that constitute a story, as well in the second-order evaluations provided by reported speech. Making use of Bakhtin’s (1984) concepts of polyphony and dialogism and recent work on ‘active voicing’, it is argued that (a) evaluation is a continuous and c…

  • Is ‘shared decision‐making’ feasible in consultations for upper respiratory tract infections? Assessing the influence of antibiotic expectations using discourse analysis

    Open AccessGlyn Elwyn, Richard Gwyn et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations1999

    OBJECTIVES: To examine the discourse of consultations in which conflict occurs between parents and clinicians about the necessity of antibiotics to treat an upper respiratory tract infection. To appraise the feasibility of shared decision-making in such consultations. DESIGN: A qualitative study using discourse analysis techniques. SETTING: A general practice with 12 500 patients in an urban area of Cardiff, Wales. PARTICIPANTS: Two consultations…

  • Killer Bugs', 'Silly Buggers' and 'Politically Correct Pals

    Open AccessRichard GwynARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…1999Citada por: 5Referencias: 6

    Media coverage of HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s revived a perennial cultural fantasy, wherein people are located as either 'innocent victims' or 'guilty agents' of illness. The notion of implicit culpability identifies HIV 'carriers' as agents of otherness, bringing the alien curse of AIDS into 'normal' society's safe haven. By 1994, however, the media had tired of AIDS stories, but the apparently sudden occurrence of necrotizing fasciitis at scatte…

  • When is a shared decision not (quite) a shared decision? Negotiating preferences in a general practice encounter

    Open AccessRichard Gwyn, Glyn ElwynARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Citada por: 24Referencias: 21

  • Limits of the Literal

    Open AccessRichard GwynARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics1997

    Charles Forceville. Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising.Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding.Andrew Ortony (ed.). Metaphor and Thought. (2nd edition)Gerard Steen. Understanding Metaphor in Literature: an Empirical Approach.Roger M. White. The Structure of Metaphor