Izumi2019b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Hiroaki Izumi |
| Title | Regrading and implicature: Sequential structures of mobility scales in Japanese rehabilitation team interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Japanese, Rehabilitation |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 150 |
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| Pages | 111-132 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.018 |
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Abstract
This study investigates regrading and scalar phenomena in rehabilitation team interactions around patient mobility. The empirical materials, based on audiovisual data from rehabilitation team meetings in a Japanese hospital and ethnographic information regarding the use of mobility assistive devices (MADs) (e.g., wheelchair, cane) and their scalar relations in physical therapy, are analyzed in two steps. First, through an ethnosemantic analysis, I show how rehabilitation team members cooperate to structure a set of MADs and their semantically and implicationally ordered relations. Next, through occasioned semantics, I explicate how the semantic setup of MADs is used as the basis for members to understand, by virtue of scalar implicature, how far patients have progressed towards independent mobility. Analysis shows that these implicatures are not always produced according to a strict, linear model but are modified by the diagnostic categorizations of patients and their mobility levels, as well as the combination of various scales. By examining the intersection of semantics and interaction, this study provides a methodological contribution to the technical analysis of regrading.
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