The Rhetorical Negotiation of Professional Identity
Nursing's Moral Imperative as the Flexible Professional and the Contribution of Unexpected Evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23712549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Patric Clair, Rebekah L Fox |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 237-267 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Studies in Symbolic Interaction (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/s0163-2396(2011)0000037013 |
| OpenAlex | W2491713204 |
| ISBN | 9781780521565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
The purpose of this study is to apply a rhetorical lens to the exploration of symbolic interactions used to negotiate contested identity. Specifically, we provide and analyze an Internet discussion among nurses concerning job duties and responsibilities. In this case study, one nurse questions her superior's remarks about her “abandoning” her responsibilities if she does not undertake “non-nursing” tasks. Ironically, the majority of posts that follow from other nurses perpetuate the notion that nurses must perform “non-nursing” tasks to fulfill their primary moral obligation and sustain an identity of nurses as flexible and caring. A rhetorical lens is applied and suggests that multiple framing techniques and rhetorical tactics (i.e., mutual negation, minimization, red herrings, sunny-side of domination, and perhaps most important the moral imperative) are used to persuade the nurse toward a collective identity – flexible professional. Although the main contribution of this study is found in the use of the rhetorical lens, an additional contribution is discussed – unexpected evidence, which suggests that the primary assumption of a “nursing shortage” may be a discursive reality, as well.
Aesthetics · Framing (construction) · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Negotiation · Nurse education · Nursing shortage · Political science · Public relations · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
Interpreting qualitative data
Identities and interactions
Handbook of qualitative research
The Emergence of On-Line Community
Appreciating the ‘work’ of discourse
Frame analysis
Pragmatics of human communication
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Behavior in Public Places
The Managed Heart
Hegemony in a mass‐mediated society
Signification, representation, ideology
A Grammar of Motives
Communicating Professional Identity in Medical Socialization
Investigating Family Labor in Communication Studies
Family and Work Socializing Communication
An Introduction to the New Volume
Considering "The Professional" in Communication Studies
Reframing the glass ceiling as a socially constructed process
The political function of narrative in organizations
The identity work of questioning in intellectual discussion
The concept and the practices of discipline in contemporary organizational life
The use of framing devices to sequester organizational narratives
The evolution of professional identity
Central Problems in Social Theory
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |