Paoletti2012a

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Paoletti2012a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Paoletti2012a
Author(s) Isabella Paoletti
Title The issue of conversationally constituted context and localization problems in emergency calls
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Tag(s) EMCA, context, emergency calls, localization problems, direction giving, discourse analysis
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Year 2012
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Journal Text & Talk
Volume 32
Number 2
Pages 191–210
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DOI 10.1515/text-2012-0010
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Abstract

This paper analyzes localization problems in medical emergency calls. It argues that some localization problems can be related to difficulties in the alignment of operators' and callers' understanding of the overall functioning of the services and, in fact, be linked to the shift in the organization features of the emergency service.

The data analyzed in this study are part of a wider corpus collected within a research project on language and technology carried out at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Bologna, Italy. The data were collected in two emergency service control rooms in northern Italy and central Italy. Through a detailed discourse analysis within an ethnomethodological framework of actual emergency calls, the analysis shows that some localization problems can be better understood by referring to the overall ethnographic understanding of the emergency service and its organizational development.

The paper aims to show that some localization problems can provide some significant insights for the discussion of the issue of “conversationally constituted context” versus “invocation to more remote context” in the analysis of interactional data. The ethnographic understanding of changes in the organization of the emergency services makes understandable elements in the calls that cannot be explained otherwise.

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