Yu-Wu2015

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Yu-Wu2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Yu-Wu2015
Author(s) Guodong Yu, Yaxin Wu
Title Managing awkward, sensitive or delicate topics in (Chinese) radio medical consultations
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Tag(s) EMCA, Medical EMCA, Delicates, Awkwardness, Phone-in, Media, Chinese
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Discourse Processes
Volume 52
Number 3
Pages 201–225
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DOI 10.1080/0163853X.2014.954952
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Abstract

This study, using conversation analysis as the research methodology, probes into the use of nage (literally “that”) as a practice of managing awkward, sensitive, or delicate issues in radio phone-in medical consultations about sex-related problems. Through sequential manipulation and turn manipulation, the caller uses stand-alone nage, either as a pronoun referring to a sex organ or sex-related problem or as a filler, to delay or to build up to the explicit mentioning of the names of sex organs or sex-related problems. In addition, nage also makes a compounded occurrence as “nage+noun.” Both in the stand-alone form and the compounded form, nage as a delicate issue managing practice in some sense helps the caller to distance him- or herself from sex-related topics, which are normatively avoided in conversations, and simultaneously helps the caller to portray him- or herself as a victim rather than an agent of the sex-related problems.

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