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Victoria University of WellingtonLinköping University
Kings College London
University of Otago
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2021-06-29Subjects
intersubjectivitysensoriality
ineffability
sound objects
Subject Categories::Q150 Psycholinguistics
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The present paper takes an interactional approach to the problem of communicating pain. We ask how a shared understanding of this subjective and internal experience is accomplished. The focus is on the multimodal features of pain displays and the way they emerge and progress at the micro level of turn construction and sequence organisation within health care interactions. The setting of the study is family doctor-patient primary care consultations. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we show the emergent, temporal unfolding nature of pain displays. Initially there is an embodied reflex-like action where an immediately prior cause can be attributed retrospectively. An interjection or non-lexical vocalization may follow. An expression of stance on the pain is routinely made as talk is resumed. The other party's understanding can be shown early in the pain display shaping its unfolding with empathetic vocalizations and/or comforting touch which results in a jointly produced change in the trajectory of action. The implications of the findings for theoretical understandings of sound objects, language and communication, and for clinical practice, are discussed.Citation
Weatherall A, Keevallik L, La J, Dowell T, Stubbe M (2021) 'The multimodality and temporality of pain displays', Language and Communication, 80, pp.56-70.Publisher
Elsevier LtdJournal
Language and CommunicationAdditional Links
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0271-5309Sponsors
The NZ Health Research Council and Royal NZ Marsden Fund provided funding for the original ARCH studies on which this paper draws. The University of Otago funded the study “General practitioners, patients and conversations about chronic pain”. The collaboration was partially funded by the Swedish Research Council grant VR 2016-00827, “Vocal practices for coordinating human action”ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.008
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