Shifting addressivity
In/Exclusionary 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-recorded visits, we analyze (a) the physician’s shifts in addressivity, which
either foster or hinder UFM’s inclusion during the history-taking phase, and b) when and
how these shifts occur. We contend that, by shifting addressivity, the physician
navigates the locally incompatible goals of gaining reliable information on UFM patients and fostering their
active participation. We contend that the micro-practice of shifting addressivity is consistent with the
management of cultural-linguistic diversity proposed by the intercultural dialogue perspective.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Unaccompanied Foreign Minors in an inclusion-oriented society
- 3.Epistemic asymmetries and agency distribution in medical encounters
- 3.1Triadic medical visits with UFMs: The multiple asymmetries at stake
- 3.2The history-taking phase in triadic medical visits with UFMs
- 4.Data and analytical procedures
- 5.Addressing the patient vs the professional educator: The physician’s in/exclusionary practices
- 5.1Inclusionary shift: From the professional educator to the patient
- 5.2Exclusionary shift: From the patient to the professional educator
- 5.3Ex/Inclusionary shifts: From the patient to the professional educator and back
- 6.Discussion
- 7.Concluding remarks: Finding a balance between inclusion and (unavoidable) exclusion
- Notes
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