Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings
The aim is to examine the discursive organization of “user-centred” team meetings in the Swedish rehabilitation sector. The “users” are aged between 4 and 30 and have been ascribed different kinds of impairments. The teams consist of one user and/or her/his relatives and different professionals. The...
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Stockholm University Press
2007-05-01
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| author | Kristina Karlsson Lars-Christer Hydén |
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| description | The aim is to examine the discursive organization of “user-centred” team meetings in the Swedish rehabilitation sector. The “users” are aged between 4 and 30 and have been ascribed different kinds of impairments. The teams consist of one user and/or her/his relatives and different professionals. The analysis is primarily based on transcriptions of 18 audiotaped team meetings held by 10 different teams and focuses on two dimensions of dominance in interaction: the amount of talk and topic control. The findings point to professional dominance, but parents also have a great influence on the topic control. The degree of participation and the control of topics of the users who participate in the meetings vary, but most of the users become involved primarily by responding to the questions and suggestions of professionals and parents. In order to increase the users’ control of the interactions the participants need to continuously discuss the organization of the conversations. The findings are related to complicating aspects of the conversations, including institutionalization, representation difficulties, varying communicative abilities, and expectations of expertise and adult liabilities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7944518176044423a3da489115f1d9412023-09-02T21:47:46ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1501-74191745-30112007-05-01929111110.1080/15017410701264418184Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team MeetingsKristina Karlsson0Lars-Christer Hydén1Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenDepartment of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenThe aim is to examine the discursive organization of “user-centred” team meetings in the Swedish rehabilitation sector. The “users” are aged between 4 and 30 and have been ascribed different kinds of impairments. The teams consist of one user and/or her/his relatives and different professionals. The analysis is primarily based on transcriptions of 18 audiotaped team meetings held by 10 different teams and focuses on two dimensions of dominance in interaction: the amount of talk and topic control. The findings point to professional dominance, but parents also have a great influence on the topic control. The degree of participation and the control of topics of the users who participate in the meetings vary, but most of the users become involved primarily by responding to the questions and suggestions of professionals and parents. In order to increase the users’ control of the interactions the participants need to continuously discuss the organization of the conversations. The findings are related to complicating aspects of the conversations, including institutionalization, representation difficulties, varying communicative abilities, and expectations of expertise and adult liabilities.https://www.sjdr.se/articles/254 |
| spellingShingle | Kristina Karlsson Lars-Christer Hydén Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research |
| title | Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings |
| title_full | Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings |
| title_fullStr | Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings |
| title_short | Democracy in Talk: Dominance in “User-Centred” Team Meetings |
| title_sort | democracy in talk dominance in user centred team meetings |
| url | https://www.sjdr.se/articles/254 |
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