L Caronia
Biographic Data
| ID | 28102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Caronia |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Caronia |
| SIGNATURE | CARONIA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8912-0599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Taking care of inpatients’ relatives: A qualitative and multi-site study on the pragmatics of the Visitors’ Book in Intensive Care Units
Hospitalization in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is widely acknowledged as a traumatic experience not only for patients but also for their family members. While prior research has analyzed narrative-based practices to address patients’ traumatic experiences in the ICU (e.g., the patient ICU diary), little attention has been paid to how narrative tools are used to support the needs of inpatients’ relatives. To fill this gap, this article aims to ana…
Accomplishing organizational compassion in critical care settings: An artifact analysis of the visitors’ book agency
Hospitalization in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a dramatic disruption of the taken-for-granted flow of everyday life for the patient’s family members. Especially in the case of long-stay hospitalization, the emotional and physical burden makes them “secondary patients”. As the recent “compassion turn” in healthcare normatively maintains, the staff’s individual communicative competences are crucial for providing empathic and compassionate forms of…
Epistemic Trust as an Interactional Accomplishment in Pediatric Well-Child Visits: Parents’ Resistance to Solicited Advice as Performing Epistemic Vigilance
Epistemic trust - i.e. the belief in knowledge claims we do not understand or cannot validate - is pivotal in healthcare interactions where trust in the source of knowledge is the foundation for adherence to therapy as well as general compliance with the physician's suggestions. However, in the contemporary knowledge society professionals can no longer count on unconditional epistemic trust: boundaries of the legitimacy and extension criteria of …
Shaping a moral body in family dinner talk: Children's socialization to good manners concerning bodily conduct
The family meal has been extensively investigated as a site for children's acquisition of eating-related behaviors and attitudes, as well as culture-specific rules and assumptions. However, little is known about children's socialization to a constitutive dimension of commensality and even social life: good manners concerning bodily conduct. Drawing on 20th century scholarship on body governmentality and good manners, and building on recent studie…
Epistemic and Deontic Authority in Parent–Teacher Conference: Referring to the Expert as a Discursive Practice to (Jointly) Undermine the Teacher’s Expertise
This article investigates the interactional constitution of a phenomenon recurrently reported by teachers who complain about a loss of authority, a systematic delegitimization of their role. Adopting a conversation analysis informed approach to a single-case study from a corpus of parent–teacher conferences, we illustrate how challenging the teachers’ expertise is accomplished by participants as an outcome of some identifiable communicative pract…
Beyond school-related learning: Parent-child homework talk as a morality building activity
Family interactions constitute an arena for children's moral development: it is indeed through ordinary talk, and shared, task-oriented activities that children are socialized into moral orders and culturally informed ways of thinking and acting. Drawing on a video-based study on the everyday life of 19 middle-class families and adopting a discourse analytic approach, the paper sheds light on the socializing function of a domestic activity: homew…
Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers
Alliances between families and children’s institutional caregivers are considered crucial in granting children a healthy upbringing. This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on the interactional construction of epistemic and deontic alliances among present and evoked children’s caregivers. Adopting a discourse analysis approach to a corpus of 54 video-recorded pediatric visits, we analyze examples of complaint sequences where pare…
Shifting addressivity: In / Ex clusionary practices in triadic medical interaction with unaccompanied foreign minors
In dealing with recent migration-related phenomena, inclusion has become an increasingly common normative ethical imperative in socio-political discourse. Considering inclusion as a situated interactive accomplishment, this article reports findings from a study on medical visits, each one involving a physician, an unaccompanied foreign minor (UFM) and a professional educator. Adopting a Conversation Analysis-informed approach to a corpus of video…
Objects that matter: The hybrid and distributed agency in parent-assisted homework interactions
It has been two decades since the social-material turn in social interaction studies proved the heuristic limits of a logocentric analytical geography. In this paper, we focus on the performative function of objects in an underexplored learning activity: parent-assisted homework. Adopting a Conversation Analysis informed approach complemented by the ventriloquial perspective on communication, we illustrate how parent-assisted homework is accompli…
Challenging the interprofessional epistemic boundaries: The practices of informing in nurse-physician interaction
Assessing a (gifted) child in parent-teacher conference: Participants’ resources to pursue (and resist) a no-problem trajectory
Delivering and acknowledging assessments are the most recurrent institutional activities occurring in parent-teacher conference. This paper reports data from a mother-teacher conference concerning a gifted child. We show how participants’ practices to accomplish and receive assessment in the report-assessment phase of the event: (a) display their relative epistemic and deontic rights, (b) are oriented to participants’ institutional relevant ident…
The agency of language in institutional talk: An introduction
This article, introducing the Special Issue, investigates the notion of “agency of language” and its historical roots: the phenomenological emphasis on the social actors’ role in constituting their Life-World. It reconstructs the genesis – at the beginning of the 20th century – of two ideas that still nourish contemporary interactional and pragmatic views of language: language meaning relies on use, language is a tool to perform activities. Focus…
Morality in Scientific Practice: The Relevance and Risks of Situated Scientific Knowledge in Application-Oriented Social Research
Following and Analyzing an Artifact
This chapter focuses on the theoretical and methodological challenge of assuming that artifacts are carriers of culture channeling human behavior according to the social discourses and world visions they embody. As Bruno Latour's sociology of interobjectivity suggests, focusing on the artifacts and the material design of the ordinary and institutional context where praxis is deployed is a way to empirically illustrate how knowledge and praxis cre…
How "at home" is an ethnographer at home? Territories of knowledge and the making of ethnographic understanding
This article proposes to consider “at home ethnography” and “abroad ethnography” not as labels standing for different kinds of fieldwork "out there" but rather as the poles of a continuum identifying the ethnographer’s situated, relative and ever changing epistemic status. Building on data from a recent fieldwork in an Intensive Care Unit, the author identifies the different epistemic circumstances that originate from the entanglement of the mult…
Morality at dinnertime: The sense of the Other as a practical accomplishment in family interaction
Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies on social interaction have described the practices through which members constitute the moral dimensions of everyday life. Drawing on Duranti’s notion of the ‘sense of the Other’, this article illustrates how mundane morality is presupposed and (re)constructed in the micro-order of everyday life. Examples of video-recorded family dinner interactions a…
Assembling (non) treatable cases: The communicative constitution of medical object in doctor-doctor interaction
Research on medical interactions shows how the discursive construction of the clinical case impacts diagnostic reasoning and treatment recommendations. Drawing on an ethnographic study in an intensive care unit, we illustrate how this process is at play in a ward that adopts an extreme, guideline-divergent policy as to the use of antibiotics. The article focuses on how physicians assemble the case as ‘treatable’ or ‘not yet treatable’, and how in…
Struggles Over Antibiotics: Physicians' Stance-Taking Toward a Nonconforming Policy in an Intensive Care Unit
One of the most pressing contemporary health care challenges consists in rethinking antibiotic use to contrast the increase of multidrug resistant bacteria. Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in an Intensive Care Unit that adopts a nonconforming policy of antibiotic stewardship, this article analyzes doctor-doctor interaction concerning infectious disease diagnosis and antibiotic treatment. By analyzing examples of medical decision-making from …
Polyphony in a ward: Tracking professional theories in members’ dialogues
Contemporary research on the communicative constitution of organization conceives organization as made up of multiple voices embodied in and enacted by the different actors inhabiting this social world. This paper illustrates the inner polyphony at play in the complex and sensitive workplace of an Intensive Care Unit. The study focuses on the diagnostic talk concerning infectious disease and on the communicative resources deployed by physicians t…
The agency of things: How spaces and artefacts organize the moral order of an intensive care unit
This article focuses on the constitutive role of space and artefacts in delineating the moral order of a specific context. Building on the premises of a post-humanistic phenomenology, it proposes a theoretical contribution to a critical understanding of communication as a complex phenomenon distributed between human and non-human semiotic agents. Drawing on ethnographic research in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the article empirically illustrates…
Totem and taboo: The Embarrassing Epistemic Work of Things in the Research Setting
Recent research on multimodal communication in the material world shows how things matter in social contexts and make a traceable difference in the unfolding of interactions. Interestingly enough, the artifacts typically used as tools of inquiry (i.e. the recording devices) are rarely deemed worthy of similar analytical attention, as if they were irrelevant or inconsequential to the organization of social interaction taking place in the field. Ad…
Texts-in-dialogues: The communicative constitution of media ideologies through family ordinary talk
This paper discusses the process through which cultural ideas, knowledge and beliefs mediating the encounter between an audience and a text are fabricated in and enacted by everyday naturally occurring dialogues. We contend that the cultural knowledge framing any hermeneutic dialogue is communicatively constituted in daily discourses, dialogues and interactions that often concern the texts and text-related practices. By taking a developmental per…
Representing dialogues-in-the-field: The shared responsibility of scientific aesthetics
Contemporary researchers can rely upon a wide repertoire of different and legitimized ways of representing field dialogues in scientific texts. This article addresses the issue of the crucial role these ways of reporting dialogues play in creating different data from the ‘same’ raw material and in the construction of very different kinds of scientific understanding of the phenomenon the original dialogues supposedly enlighten. By empirically illu…
Family Morality and Cultural Identity in Parents' Use of the Quebec Movie Rating System
Canada has defined since 1987 a number of policies to regulate audiovisual cultural products. Two major reasons support this set of regulations and self regulations: the protection of children from potentially disturbing media content and the need to have a system which supposedly mirrors Canadian values and Canada’s self-representation as culturally and socially different from the United States. This cultural issue is particularly noticeable in …
Coviewing in An Italian Classroom: Language, interaction, and making sense of television
The article presents data of a quasiexperimental research on media education practices in Italian primary and preprimary schools. Drawing on a socioconstructivist theoretical approach to children's social and cognitive development the study focuses on peer coviewing in the classroom as a social activity that contributes to the development of children's media-related competences. By describing and analyzing audiovisual recorded interactions of chi…
Moving Cultures: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life
The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which teenagers have creatively adopted cell phones and blackberries in their social and cultural lives
The agency of things: How spaces and artefacts organize the moral order of an intensive care unit
This article focuses on the constitutive role of space and artefacts in delineating the moral order of a specific context. Building on the premises of a post-humanistic phenomenology, it proposes a theoretical contribution to a critical understanding of communication as a complex phenomenon distributed between human and non-human semiotic agents. Drawing on ethnographic research in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the article empirically illustrates…
Morality at dinnertime: The sense of the Other as a practical accomplishment in family interaction
Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies on social interaction have described the practices through which members constitute the moral dimensions of everyday life. Drawing on Duranti’s notion of the ‘sense of the Other’, this article illustrates how mundane morality is presupposed and (re)constructed in the micro-order of everyday life. Examples of video-recorded family dinner interactions a…
Totem and taboo: The Embarrassing Epistemic Work of Things in the Research Setting
Recent research on multimodal communication in the material world shows how things matter in social contexts and make a traceable difference in the unfolding of interactions. Interestingly enough, the artifacts typically used as tools of inquiry (i.e. the recording devices) are rarely deemed worthy of similar analytical attention, as if they were irrelevant or inconsequential to the organization of social interaction taking place in the field. Ad…
How "at home" is an ethnographer at home? Territories of knowledge and the making of ethnographic understanding
This article proposes to consider “at home ethnography” and “abroad ethnography” not as labels standing for different kinds of fieldwork "out there" but rather as the poles of a continuum identifying the ethnographer’s situated, relative and ever changing epistemic status. Building on data from a recent fieldwork in an Intensive Care Unit, the author identifies the different epistemic circumstances that originate from the entanglement of the mult…
Assembling (non) treatable cases: The communicative constitution of medical object in doctor-doctor interaction
Research on medical interactions shows how the discursive construction of the clinical case impacts diagnostic reasoning and treatment recommendations. Drawing on an ethnographic study in an intensive care unit, we illustrate how this process is at play in a ward that adopts an extreme, guideline-divergent policy as to the use of antibiotics. The article focuses on how physicians assemble the case as ‘treatable’ or ‘not yet treatable’, and how in…
Challenging the interprofessional epistemic boundaries: The practices of informing in nurse-physician interaction
Struggles Over Antibiotics: Physicians' Stance-Taking Toward a Nonconforming Policy in an Intensive Care Unit
One of the most pressing contemporary health care challenges consists in rethinking antibiotic use to contrast the increase of multidrug resistant bacteria. Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in an Intensive Care Unit that adopts a nonconforming policy of antibiotic stewardship, this article analyzes doctor-doctor interaction concerning infectious disease diagnosis and antibiotic treatment. By analyzing examples of medical decision-making from …
Shaping a moral body in family dinner talk: Children's socialization to good manners concerning bodily conduct
The family meal has been extensively investigated as a site for children's acquisition of eating-related behaviors and attitudes, as well as culture-specific rules and assumptions. However, little is known about children's socialization to a constitutive dimension of commensality and even social life: good manners concerning bodily conduct. Drawing on 20th century scholarship on body governmentality and good manners, and building on recent studie…
Epistemic and Deontic Authority in Parent–Teacher Conference: Referring to the Expert as a Discursive Practice to (Jointly) Undermine the Teacher’s Expertise
This article investigates the interactional constitution of a phenomenon recurrently reported by teachers who complain about a loss of authority, a systematic delegitimization of their role. Adopting a conversation analysis informed approach to a single-case study from a corpus of parent–teacher conferences, we illustrate how challenging the teachers’ expertise is accomplished by participants as an outcome of some identifiable communicative pract…
Investigando sobre los medios: Una reflexión sobre la metodología
This paper presents some reflections on the methodological issues raised by contemporary research on the appropriation and daily uses of communication and information technologies. The authors argue the need for links between theoretical frameworks, hypothesis and methodological tools, suggesting that methodological matters are never «pure» methodological queries insofar as they reflect the researcher’s commitment to a broader level of theoretica…
Langage et construction sociale de l’ethnicité. Une étude sur la mise en discours de l’élève en tant qu’« élève étranger
Les pratiques de nomination constituent l’une des plus puissantes ressources A travers lesquelles les membres d’une communauté produisent leur propres identités sociales er celles des acteurs A qui ils s’adressent ou A qui il se réfèrent. L’article rend compte d’une analyse des pratiques de désignation utilisées par un échantillon d’enseignants des crèches et des écoles maternelles italiennes. L’analyse des corpus discursifs — collectés A travers…
Moving Cultures: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life
The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which teenagers have creatively adopted cell phones and blackberries in their social and cultural lives
Coviewing in An Italian Classroom: Language, interaction, and making sense of television
The article presents data of a quasiexperimental research on media education practices in Italian primary and preprimary schools. Drawing on a socioconstructivist theoretical approach to children's social and cognitive development the study focuses on peer coviewing in the classroom as a social activity that contributes to the development of children's media-related competences. By describing and analyzing audiovisual recorded interactions of chi…
Representing dialogues-in-the-field: The shared responsibility of scientific aesthetics
Contemporary researchers can rely upon a wide repertoire of different and legitimized ways of representing field dialogues in scientific texts. This article addresses the issue of the crucial role these ways of reporting dialogues play in creating different data from the ‘same’ raw material and in the construction of very different kinds of scientific understanding of the phenomenon the original dialogues supposedly enlighten. By empirically illu…
Family Morality and Cultural Identity in Parents' Use of the Quebec Movie Rating System
Canada has defined since 1987 a number of policies to regulate audiovisual cultural products. Two major reasons support this set of regulations and self regulations: the protection of children from potentially disturbing media content and the need to have a system which supposedly mirrors Canadian values and Canada’s self-representation as culturally and socially different from the United States. This cultural issue is particularly noticeable in …
Texts-in-dialogues: The communicative constitution of media ideologies through family ordinary talk
This paper discusses the process through which cultural ideas, knowledge and beliefs mediating the encounter between an audience and a text are fabricated in and enacted by everyday naturally occurring dialogues. We contend that the cultural knowledge framing any hermeneutic dialogue is communicatively constituted in daily discourses, dialogues and interactions that often concern the texts and text-related practices. By taking a developmental per…
The agency of things: How spaces and artefacts organize the moral order of an intensive care unit
This article focuses on the constitutive role of space and artefacts in delineating the moral order of a specific context. Building on the premises of a post-humanistic phenomenology, it proposes a theoretical contribution to a critical understanding of communication as a complex phenomenon distributed between human and non-human semiotic agents. Drawing on ethnographic research in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the article empirically illustrates…
Totem and taboo: The Embarrassing Epistemic Work of Things in the Research Setting
Recent research on multimodal communication in the material world shows how things matter in social contexts and make a traceable difference in the unfolding of interactions. Interestingly enough, the artifacts typically used as tools of inquiry (i.e. the recording devices) are rarely deemed worthy of similar analytical attention, as if they were irrelevant or inconsequential to the organization of social interaction taking place in the field. Ad…
Polyphony in a ward: Tracking professional theories in members’ dialogues
Contemporary research on the communicative constitution of organization conceives organization as made up of multiple voices embodied in and enacted by the different actors inhabiting this social world. This paper illustrates the inner polyphony at play in the complex and sensitive workplace of an Intensive Care Unit. The study focuses on the diagnostic talk concerning infectious disease and on the communicative resources deployed by physicians t…
Morality at dinnertime: The sense of the Other as a practical accomplishment in family interaction
Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies on social interaction have described the practices through which members constitute the moral dimensions of everyday life. Drawing on Duranti’s notion of the ‘sense of the Other’, this article illustrates how mundane morality is presupposed and (re)constructed in the micro-order of everyday life. Examples of video-recorded family dinner interactions a…
Assembling (non) treatable cases: The communicative constitution of medical object in doctor-doctor interaction
Research on medical interactions shows how the discursive construction of the clinical case impacts diagnostic reasoning and treatment recommendations. Drawing on an ethnographic study in an intensive care unit, we illustrate how this process is at play in a ward that adopts an extreme, guideline-divergent policy as to the use of antibiotics. The article focuses on how physicians assemble the case as ‘treatable’ or ‘not yet treatable’, and how in…
Struggles Over Antibiotics: Physicians' Stance-Taking Toward a Nonconforming Policy in an Intensive Care Unit
One of the most pressing contemporary health care challenges consists in rethinking antibiotic use to contrast the increase of multidrug resistant bacteria. Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in an Intensive Care Unit that adopts a nonconforming policy of antibiotic stewardship, this article analyzes doctor-doctor interaction concerning infectious disease diagnosis and antibiotic treatment. By analyzing examples of medical decision-making from …
Following and Analyzing an Artifact
This chapter focuses on the theoretical and methodological challenge of assuming that artifacts are carriers of culture channeling human behavior according to the social discourses and world visions they embody. As Bruno Latour's sociology of interobjectivity suggests, focusing on the artifacts and the material design of the ordinary and institutional context where praxis is deployed is a way to empirically illustrate how knowledge and praxis cre…
How "at home" is an ethnographer at home? Territories of knowledge and the making of ethnographic understanding
This article proposes to consider “at home ethnography” and “abroad ethnography” not as labels standing for different kinds of fieldwork "out there" but rather as the poles of a continuum identifying the ethnographer’s situated, relative and ever changing epistemic status. Building on data from a recent fieldwork in an Intensive Care Unit, the author identifies the different epistemic circumstances that originate from the entanglement of the mult…
Assessing a (gifted) child in parent-teacher conference: Participants’ resources to pursue (and resist) a no-problem trajectory
Delivering and acknowledging assessments are the most recurrent institutional activities occurring in parent-teacher conference. This paper reports data from a mother-teacher conference concerning a gifted child. We show how participants’ practices to accomplish and receive assessment in the report-assessment phase of the event: (a) display their relative epistemic and deontic rights, (b) are oriented to participants’ institutional relevant ident…
The agency of language in institutional talk: An introduction
This article, introducing the Special Issue, investigates the notion of “agency of language” and its historical roots: the phenomenological emphasis on the social actors’ role in constituting their Life-World. It reconstructs the genesis – at the beginning of the 20th century – of two ideas that still nourish contemporary interactional and pragmatic views of language: language meaning relies on use, language is a tool to perform activities. Focus…
Morality in Scientific Practice: The Relevance and Risks of Situated Scientific Knowledge in Application-Oriented Social Research
Challenging the interprofessional epistemic boundaries: The practices of informing in nurse-physician interaction
Objects that matter: The hybrid and distributed agency in parent-assisted homework interactions
It has been two decades since the social-material turn in social interaction studies proved the heuristic limits of a logocentric analytical geography. In this paper, we focus on the performative function of objects in an underexplored learning activity: parent-assisted homework. Adopting a Conversation Analysis informed approach complemented by the ventriloquial perspective on communication, we illustrate how parent-assisted homework is accompli…
Shifting addressivity: In / Ex clusionary practices in triadic medical interaction with unaccompanied foreign minors
In dealing with recent migration-related phenomena, inclusion has become an increasingly common normative ethical imperative in socio-political discourse. Considering inclusion as a situated interactive accomplishment, this article reports findings from a study on medical visits, each one involving a physician, an unaccompanied foreign minor (UFM) and a professional educator. Adopting a Conversation Analysis-informed approach to a corpus of video…
Beyond school-related learning: Parent-child homework talk as a morality building activity
Family interactions constitute an arena for children's moral development: it is indeed through ordinary talk, and shared, task-oriented activities that children are socialized into moral orders and culturally informed ways of thinking and acting. Drawing on a video-based study on the everyday life of 19 middle-class families and adopting a discourse analytic approach, the paper sheds light on the socializing function of a domestic activity: homew…
Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers
Alliances between families and children’s institutional caregivers are considered crucial in granting children a healthy upbringing. This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on the interactional construction of epistemic and deontic alliances among present and evoked children’s caregivers. Adopting a discourse analysis approach to a corpus of 54 video-recorded pediatric visits, we analyze examples of complaint sequences where pare…
Epistemic Trust as an Interactional Accomplishment in Pediatric Well-Child Visits: Parents’ Resistance to Solicited Advice as Performing Epistemic Vigilance
Epistemic trust - i.e. the belief in knowledge claims we do not understand or cannot validate - is pivotal in healthcare interactions where trust in the source of knowledge is the foundation for adherence to therapy as well as general compliance with the physician's suggestions. However, in the contemporary knowledge society professionals can no longer count on unconditional epistemic trust: boundaries of the legitimacy and extension criteria of …
Shaping a moral body in family dinner talk: Children's socialization to good manners concerning bodily conduct
The family meal has been extensively investigated as a site for children's acquisition of eating-related behaviors and attitudes, as well as culture-specific rules and assumptions. However, little is known about children's socialization to a constitutive dimension of commensality and even social life: good manners concerning bodily conduct. Drawing on 20th century scholarship on body governmentality and good manners, and building on recent studie…
Sociology (20 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Conversation (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)