Narratives of Vicarious Experience in Professional and Workplace contexts: Introduction to the special issue

Zayts, Olga; Norrick, Neal R.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.10.010

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“…Reid et al, 2005 ). This is where discourse analysis could lend useful methodological insights from a long-standing research tradition of exploring lived experiences that would allow psychologists to gain a deeper understanding of how people tell their life stories, what form these stories take and what functions they perform ( Zayts and Norrick, 2020 ). Second, in discourse analysis, discourse (in its many forms, including written and oral) is conceptualized as a practical, social activity that accomplishes social life and constructs different versions of knowledge.…”

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‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19

Zayts‐Spence

Tse

Fortune

2022

Discourse & Society

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COVID-19 has become a mental health pandemic. The impact on vulnerable demographic groups has been particularly severe. This paper focuses on women in employment in Hong Kong who have had to balance remote work and online schooling for over 2 years. Using semi-ethnography and theme-oriented discourse analysis, we examine 200 threads that concern members’ mental health on a popular Facebook support group for mothers. We demonstrate that mental health messages are typically framed as ‘troubles talk’. Other support group members actively align with a trouble-teller through ‘caring responses’, namely expressions of empathy and sympathy. These are realized through assessments of the trouble-teller’s experience, reports of similar experiences; expressions of compassion and advice-giving. Mental health talk online is heavily mitigated, nevertheless the medium provides a space for expressing mental health troubles and providing informal psychosocial support. We advocate the importance of microanalytic discourse studies for mental health research to get insights into people’s lived experiences during the pandemic.

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‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19

Zayts‐Spence

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Fortune

2022

Discourse & Society

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Migrant doctors’ narratives about patients

Lazzaro-Salazar

Zayts

2021

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Narratives of personal and vicarious experience are part and parcel of being a doctor, as doctors routinely (re)interpret and (re)tell patients’ narratives when reflecting on clinical cases. Taking an interest in migrant doctors’ self-initiated narratives about patients in doctor-researcher interviews about cultural transitions, this study examines over thirty hours of audio-recordings of forty semi-structured interviews conducted as part of a collaborative project in Chile and Hong Kong. The study explores how migrant doctors construct their professional ‘self’ through narratives about patients, and how these narratives help migrant doctors legitimise their arguments and professional stance in criticizing cultural and societal attitudes towards health and illness, and the professional practices of local doctors. Finally, the paper reflects on the ways in which migrant doctors’ identity positionings provide space for the creation of a “symbolic territory” in which the practices of migrant doctors co-exist within the boundaries of the practices of local doctors in the host culture.

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Old genres, new media: Collective witnessing and social memory‐making on Argentine Twitter

Martin

2024

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Through a linguistic anthropological lens of interdiscursivity, this article analyzes the semiotic and historical development of the testimonio genre of #Cuéntalo (“tell it [your story]”), a 2018 Twitter movement that began in Spain to protest sexual violence and evolved when the hashtag traveled to Argentina. The recognition of #Cuéntalo tweets as a genre helped to put the narratives on the public record by offering a paradigmatic frame that invited participation and poetic variation, producing a sense of performance of witnessing and memory‐making. I argue that this endeavor was ultimately a successful intervention due to the following factors: the infrastructure and participation frameworks of social media, the historical precedent of women's and feminist movements in the region, the genre's allowance for first‐person storytelling by other narrators, and the subsequent archival efforts and media recontextualizations. The large quantity of tweets—iterations of a similar story—demonstrated the truth and severity of the issue, as each tweet was simultaneously narrated by the victim, the tweet's author, and society as a whole. In the case of #Cuéntalo testimonios, the individual and the aggregate came together via hashtag activism in a collective witnessing of social injustice that was archived as subaltern social memory.

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Narratives of Vicarious Experience in Professional and Workplace contexts: Introduction to the special issue

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19

‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19

Migrant doctors’ narratives about patients

Old genres, new media: Collective witnessing and social memory‐making on Argentine Twitter

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