Knowledge negotiation and interactional power
Epistemic stances in Arabic–Swedish antenatal care consultations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11293409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stina Ericsson (0000-0002-0011-5030, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author), Dima Bitar (School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University , Kalmar , Sweden), Tommaso M Milani (0000-0002-7237-5501, University of Gothenburg), Tommaso Milani (0000-0001-7267-4379, University of Gothenburg) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 465-487 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Multilingua (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/multi-2020-0165 |
| OpenAlex | W3168456720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article concerns knowledge negotiations as an aspect of interactional power in three-way interaction between Arabic-speaking women, Swedish-speaking midwives and interpreters in Swedish antenatal care. The notion of epistemic stance is used to investigate how all three participants negotiate knowledge, and how this affects the ongoing consultation. The data consist of audio recordings of 33 consultations, involving five midwives. Using an interaction analytical approach, the study focuses on sequences where the pregnant woman makes her voice heard, possibly challenging the midwife or the Swedish antenatal care programme. Three different ways in which the epistemic stances of the participants unfold interactionally are analysed: (1) the midwife and the pregnant woman mutually adjusting their knowledge claims, (2) the pregnant woman unsuccessfully attempting to claim knowledge and (3) participants jointly asserting the midwife’s knowledge. Importantly, all three participants wield their interactional power through various ways of negotiating knowledge, which contrasts with the idea of the interpreter as fully neutral and detached. The knowledge claims of the pregnant women and the midwives in the data are also shown to be highly dependent on the interpreters’ competence and performance
Arabic · Competence (human resources · Conversation analysis · Interpreter · Linguistics · Negotiation · Power (physics · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems
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The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
Medical Interpreting and Cross-cultural Communication
Discourse
The Impact of Medical Interpreter Services on the Quality of Health Care
The stance triangle
Discipline and Punish
Communicating Across Cultures and Languages in the Health Care Setting
Conversation analysis
Health Care Professionals’ and Patients’ Management of the Interactional Practices in Telemedicine Videoconferencing
Epistemic Brokering in the Interpreter-Mediated Medical Visit
Toward Understanding Practices of Medical Interpreting
Accounts
Asymmetrical knowledge claims in general practice consultations with frequently attending patients
Negotiating treatment preferences
Beyond ideal speech situations
Tensions in the epistemic domain and claims of no-knowledge
On mutual accessibility of contextual assumptions in dialogue interpreting
When the Doctor Is a 'Lady
Interaction and Asymmetry in Clinical Discourse
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |