Yu-Wu2015
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| 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 |
| URL | Link |
| 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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