Inger Lassen
Biographic Data
| ID | 659254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inger Lassen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inger |
| FAMILY NAME | Lassen |
| SIGNATURE | LASSEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6272-5846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The struggle between welfare state models and prevailing healthcare policy in Scandinavian healthcare legislative documents
Purpose The paper aims to compare and discuss the findings of discursive constructions of patients in legal texts from the three Scandinavian countries. Since traditional welfare state systems in Scandinavia are being challenged by new governance systems, new questions are being raised about patient positions and agency, carrying with them potential ethical dilemmas for healthcare professionals. Design/methodology/approach The methodology of the …
Capitalizing on nature: A critical discourse study of nature policy concerning the Murchison Falls Conservation Area of Uganda
This article explores discursive struggles between ideologies of nature development and nature conservation discourses in the context of the Murchison Falls Conservation Area (MFCA) in Uganda. Based on the concepts of critical discourse moments and discourse coalitions, the article offers a nuanced perspective on nature policy in a specific, though not unique, context. The purpose of studying tensions between different positions in nature policy …
Resisting dehumanization: Citizen Voices and Acts of Solidarity
Recent years have seen an increase in the influx of asylum-seekers in Scandinavia, and in Denmark this has led to ever-tighter immigration control. This article discusses emerging practices of refugee solidarity and resistance to migration policy in Danish civil society in the wake of what has been referred to as the European refugee crisis. To accomplish this purpose, I analyse how participants in Facebook discussions construe topoi and attitude…
Discourse trajectories in a nexus of genres
Departing from the view that genres are regulative as well as constitutive of social action, this article explores the interconnectedness of genres and Discourses that transit generic boundaries. Situating the study in a local energy transition project in Denmark and exploring what happens in a series of citizen meetings without a narrowly defined agenda, I argue that the meetings may be seen as a nexus of genres constituted by a tissue of interw…
Climate Change Discourses and Citizen Participation: A Case Study of the Discursive Construction of Citizenship in Two Public Events
Citizen participation is a recurrent and democratically important issue in the ongoing debate about climate change. However, different meanings are ascribed to citizen participation in different contexts and discourses, ranging from top-down involvement to bottom-up engagement. This article investigates citizen participation as it emerges in two discussion fora, viz. a global forum represented by the international conference Beyond Kyoto, includi…
The discursive construction of self positioning amongst minority ethnic patients in a hospital ward
This paper deals with results from an ongoing research project about how patients and health professionals talk about and enact culture in a specific Danish hospital ward, whether this may have implications for staff–patient relationships and how knowledge of cultural complexities may add value to patient care. The project and this paper are based on a discourse analytic and social constructivist approach and, contrary to some earlier studies foc…
Timing GMO: Discursive constructions of temporality in local discussions of a global issue
In this article, we study the relationship of temporality and ideology through examples from a local controversy over field testing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in casu maize, in a rural area in the north of Denmark. Our primary focus is on ways in which participants represent time on shorter or longer timescales, and how these timescales are linked discursively. Our data stem from three sources: a video-recording of an anti-GMO demo…
The Red Gold: Analysing a nexus of practices
The case study discussed in this article focuses on two communicative events unfolding in connection with trials in Angola of a genetically modified plant designed to detect landmines. The case is based on an independent observer's report and a documentary, The Red Gold, which was broadcast on Danish TV during 2004. I use a nexus analysis approach combined with critical discourse analysis to suggest that intertextuality and discourse interaction …
Commonplaces and social uncertainty: Negotiating public opinion
This article explores commonplaces in focus group discussions about genetically modified food. In the discussions, members of the general public interact with food biotechnology scientists while negotiating their attitudes towards genetic engineering. Their discussions offer an example of uncertainty discourse in which the use of commonplaces seems to be a central feature. My analyses support earlier findings that commonplaces serve important int…
Is the press release a genre? A study of form and content
Although using different labels, genre theorists from different traditions have generally given privilege to the communicative purpose, in this article referred to as rhetorical objective, as genre determinant (see e.g. Swales, 1990; Bhatia, 1993; see also Hasan, 1989; Halliday and Martin, 1993; Eggins, 1994). Genre analysts who have studied press releases in particular (e.g. Frandsen et al., 1997; Jacobs, 1999) tend to share this view, but never…
Mediating ideology in text and image: Ten Critical Studies
Annotation
De-naturalizing ideology: Presupposition and Appraisal in biotechnology press releases
Resisting dehumanization: Citizen Voices and Acts of Solidarity
Recent years have seen an increase in the influx of asylum-seekers in Scandinavia, and in Denmark this has led to ever-tighter immigration control. This article discusses emerging practices of refugee solidarity and resistance to migration policy in Danish civil society in the wake of what has been referred to as the European refugee crisis. To accomplish this purpose, I analyse how participants in Facebook discussions construe topoi and attitude…
The discursive construction of self positioning amongst minority ethnic patients in a hospital ward
This paper deals with results from an ongoing research project about how patients and health professionals talk about and enact culture in a specific Danish hospital ward, whether this may have implications for staff–patient relationships and how knowledge of cultural complexities may add value to patient care. The project and this paper are based on a discourse analytic and social constructivist approach and, contrary to some earlier studies foc…
The Red Gold: Analysing a nexus of practices
The case study discussed in this article focuses on two communicative events unfolding in connection with trials in Angola of a genetically modified plant designed to detect landmines. The case is based on an independent observer's report and a documentary, The Red Gold, which was broadcast on Danish TV during 2004. I use a nexus analysis approach combined with critical discourse analysis to suggest that intertextuality and discourse interaction …
Discourse trajectories in a nexus of genres
Departing from the view that genres are regulative as well as constitutive of social action, this article explores the interconnectedness of genres and Discourses that transit generic boundaries. Situating the study in a local energy transition project in Denmark and exploring what happens in a series of citizen meetings without a narrowly defined agenda, I argue that the meetings may be seen as a nexus of genres constituted by a tissue of interw…
Commonplaces and social uncertainty: Negotiating public opinion
This article explores commonplaces in focus group discussions about genetically modified food. In the discussions, members of the general public interact with food biotechnology scientists while negotiating their attitudes towards genetic engineering. Their discussions offer an example of uncertainty discourse in which the use of commonplaces seems to be a central feature. My analyses support earlier findings that commonplaces serve important int…
Is the press release a genre? A study of form and content
Although using different labels, genre theorists from different traditions have generally given privilege to the communicative purpose, in this article referred to as rhetorical objective, as genre determinant (see e.g. Swales, 1990; Bhatia, 1993; see also Hasan, 1989; Halliday and Martin, 1993; Eggins, 1994). Genre analysts who have studied press releases in particular (e.g. Frandsen et al., 1997; Jacobs, 1999) tend to share this view, but never…
Mediating ideology in text and image: Ten Critical Studies
Annotation
De-naturalizing ideology: Presupposition and Appraisal in biotechnology press releases
The Red Gold: Analysing a nexus of practices
The case study discussed in this article focuses on two communicative events unfolding in connection with trials in Angola of a genetically modified plant designed to detect landmines. The case is based on an independent observer's report and a documentary, The Red Gold, which was broadcast on Danish TV during 2004. I use a nexus analysis approach combined with critical discourse analysis to suggest that intertextuality and discourse interaction …
Commonplaces and social uncertainty: Negotiating public opinion
This article explores commonplaces in focus group discussions about genetically modified food. In the discussions, members of the general public interact with food biotechnology scientists while negotiating their attitudes towards genetic engineering. Their discussions offer an example of uncertainty discourse in which the use of commonplaces seems to be a central feature. My analyses support earlier findings that commonplaces serve important int…
Climate Change Discourses and Citizen Participation: A Case Study of the Discursive Construction of Citizenship in Two Public Events
Citizen participation is a recurrent and democratically important issue in the ongoing debate about climate change. However, different meanings are ascribed to citizen participation in different contexts and discourses, ranging from top-down involvement to bottom-up engagement. This article investigates citizen participation as it emerges in two discussion fora, viz. a global forum represented by the international conference Beyond Kyoto, includi…
The discursive construction of self positioning amongst minority ethnic patients in a hospital ward
This paper deals with results from an ongoing research project about how patients and health professionals talk about and enact culture in a specific Danish hospital ward, whether this may have implications for staff–patient relationships and how knowledge of cultural complexities may add value to patient care. The project and this paper are based on a discourse analytic and social constructivist approach and, contrary to some earlier studies foc…
Timing GMO: Discursive constructions of temporality in local discussions of a global issue
In this article, we study the relationship of temporality and ideology through examples from a local controversy over field testing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in casu maize, in a rural area in the north of Denmark. Our primary focus is on ways in which participants represent time on shorter or longer timescales, and how these timescales are linked discursively. Our data stem from three sources: a video-recording of an anti-GMO demo…
Discourse trajectories in a nexus of genres
Departing from the view that genres are regulative as well as constitutive of social action, this article explores the interconnectedness of genres and Discourses that transit generic boundaries. Situating the study in a local energy transition project in Denmark and exploring what happens in a series of citizen meetings without a narrowly defined agenda, I argue that the meetings may be seen as a nexus of genres constituted by a tissue of interw…
Resisting dehumanization: Citizen Voices and Acts of Solidarity
Recent years have seen an increase in the influx of asylum-seekers in Scandinavia, and in Denmark this has led to ever-tighter immigration control. This article discusses emerging practices of refugee solidarity and resistance to migration policy in Danish civil society in the wake of what has been referred to as the European refugee crisis. To accomplish this purpose, I analyse how participants in Facebook discussions construe topoi and attitude…
The struggle between welfare state models and prevailing healthcare policy in Scandinavian healthcare legislative documents
Purpose The paper aims to compare and discuss the findings of discursive constructions of patients in legal texts from the three Scandinavian countries. Since traditional welfare state systems in Scandinavia are being challenged by new governance systems, new questions are being raised about patient positions and agency, carrying with them potential ethical dilemmas for healthcare professionals. Design/methodology/approach The methodology of the …
Capitalizing on nature: A critical discourse study of nature policy concerning the Murchison Falls Conservation Area of Uganda
This article explores discursive struggles between ideologies of nature development and nature conservation discourses in the context of the Murchison Falls Conservation Area (MFCA) in Uganda. Based on the concepts of critical discourse moments and discourse coalitions, the article offers a nuanced perspective on nature policy in a specific, though not unique, context. The purpose of studying tensions between different positions in nature policy …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Ideology (6 works) · Discourse analysis (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Critical discourse analysis (4 works)