A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding
Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338] 2023. vi, 397 pp.
Sarah Bigi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sarah Bigi plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 Chapter 3. Arguments and framing strategies in Italian public discourse about measures to contrast the Covid-19 pandemic Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli (eds.), pp. 71–91 | Chapter
The Covid-19 pandemic has been described as a creeping crisis, which is a kind of crisis that develops slowly, threatens common values, and is partially or insufficiently addressed by authorities. In order for an event to appear as a “creeping crisis” citizens have to agree that it threatens… read more
2023 Introduction. Fostering interdisciplinary knowledge translation at the interface between healthcare communication and pragmatics A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2020 Analyzing dialogue moves in chronic care communication: Dialogical intentions and customization of recommendations for the assessment of medical deliberation Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:2, pp. 167–198 | Article
Dialogue moves are a pragmatic instrument that captures the most important categories of “dialogical intentions.” This paper adapts this tool to the conversational setting of chronic care communication, characterized by the general goal of making reasoned decisions concerning patients’… read more
2018 The role of argumentative strategies in the construction of emergent common ground in a patient-centered approach to the medical encounter Argumentation and Patient Centered Care, Snoeck Henkemans, Francisca, Roosmaryn Pilgram and Nanon Labrie (eds.), pp. 141–156 | Article
In this paper, argumentation practices will be discussed in view of their potential for favoring effective information sharing and the creation of ‘emergent common ground’, i.e. the common ground that is sought, created and co-constructed in the process of communication. Argumentation is usually… read more
2015 Can argumentation skills become a therapeutic resource? Results from an observational study in diabetes care Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 281–294 | Article
The paper describes results from an observational study on argumentation in the medical setting, which show how and why argumentation skills can become a useful therapeutic tool in chronic care. The results of the study show that the therapeutic goals of chronic care are strongly linked to… read more
2014 Evaluating argumentative moves in medical consultations Argumentation and Health, Rubinelli, Sara and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 51–65 | Article
The relevance of context has been acknowledged recently as a fundamental element for the correct evaluation of argumentative moves within institutional fields of interaction. Indeed, not considering the larger culture-specific and social features of the context within which the interactions take… read more
2012 Chapter 17. Contextual constraints on argumentation: The case of the medical encounter Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 289–304 | Article
The paper presents partial results from an ongoing research on communication in the medical setting.1 The aim of the paper is to show how the institutional context can affect argumentation by focusing on the activity type of medical consultations. In order to achieve this goal, the paper is… read more
2012 Evaluating argumentative moves in medical consultations Argumentation and Health, Rubinelli, Sara and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 51–65 | Article
The relevance of context has been acknowledged also recently as a fundamental element for the correct evaluation of argumentative moves within institutional fields of interaction. Indeed, not considering the larger culture-specific and social features of the context within which the interactions… read more