Practices of referring to persons: Uses of pronouns in oncological medical interactions

指称人的实践：代词在肿瘤医学互动中的使用

• 批准号: 505793521
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Susanne Günthner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Germanistisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/505793521?language=en
• 关键词: Practices; referring; persons; Uses; pronouns

The project is part of the Research Unit “Practices of referring to persons: personal, indefinite and demonstrative pronouns in use”. The aim of this project is to analyze the situative use of personal, indefinite and demonstrative pronouns, based on a corpus of oncological medical interactions where cancer patients are told their diagnosis and proposed therapy. Applying methods and concepts of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the project plans to show how pronouns are used to constitute participant roles, how self- and other-repair is managed, how strategies of agentivation and de-agentivation are employed and how stances are marked. At the same time, the role of these pronouns in the context of typical actions within these oncological interactions will be reconstructed. Hereby, prototypical and as well as deviant uses of pronouns will be detected. To achieve this aim, the corpus will be annotated in terms of verbal strategies of clarifying and masking of reference and agentivity (this concerns personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, infinitive constructions, existential construc¬tions, passive constructions, formulaic expressions such as let’s say and many more). This broad annotation provides the background for further analyzes of referential practices to persons with pronouns. The following questions will be addressed: (1) At which sequential positions do ambiguities and vaguenesses concerning reference to persons occur and how do they relate to degrees of agentivity? Which interactional functions and consequences do these ambiguities have? When and how, for example, do they lead to repair sequences, active thematizations of understanding and demand of taking a clear stance? (2) How do doctors and patients’ relatives talk about present patients in triadic constellations? Which forms of lateral address are used? (3) In what ways and in which sequential positions do personal, indefinite and demonstrative correlate with the activities carried out? (4) Which interactional functions do the different pronouns have? When do interactants use personal pronouns, when indefinite pronouns and when demonstrative pronouns to refer to present and absent persons? (5) How do pronouns contribute to the local constitution of the situative participant constellation, to the indication of social team building between the interactants, to the display of collaborative coping, to the inclusion or exclusion of the common situation or the marking of deontic or epistemic authorities? (6) Which sedimented patterns containing pronouns are used as communicative resources for which actions?

该项目是“人称代词的实践：人称代词、不定代词和指示代词的使用”研究小组的一部分，该项目的目的是根据肿瘤学语料库分析人称代词、不定代词和指示代词的情境使用。该项目计划通过应用对话分析和交互语言学的方法和概念，向参与者展示如何使用代词来构成角色、如何自我和如何构建角色。同时，这些代词在这些肿瘤学相互作用中的典型行为的背景下的作用将被重建。为了实现这一目标，语料库将根据澄清和掩盖指称和主体性的语言策略进行注释（这涉及人称代词、不定代词、不定式结构、存在性结构、被动结构、公式化表达（如 let's say 等）这一广泛的注释为进一步整合代词人称的指称实践提供了背景：（1）顺序。涉及人的模糊性和模糊性是否会出现？它们与主体性程度有何关系？这些模糊性何时以及如何导致？修复顺序、积极的理解主题和采取明确立场的要求？（2）医生和患者家属如何以三位一体的方式谈论当前的患者？（3）使用什么方式和方式？人称代词、不定代词和指示代词的连续位置与所进行的活动相关吗？ (4) 不同的代词有哪些交互功能？交互者何时使用人称代词、何时使用不定代词以及何时使用指示代词来指代在场和不在场的人？ (5) 代词如何有助于情景星座的局部构成、指示互动者之间的社会团队建设、展示协作应对、纳入或排除共同情况或标记道义或（ 6) 哪些包含代词的沉积模式被用作哪些动作的交际资源？