On Language in Society: Part II

Grimshaw, Allen D.; Burling, Robbins; Cazden, Courtney B.; John, Vera P.; Fishman, Joshua A.; Cooper, Robert L.; Ma, Roxanna; Gumperz, John J.; Hymes, Dell; Moscovici, Serge; Pride, J. B.; Holmes, Janet; Samarin, William J.; Scheflen, Albert E.; Shuy, Roger W.; Ward, Martha C.

doi:10.2307/2063427

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Grimshaw (1973Grimshaw ( , 1974Grimshaw ( , 1980 reviews some of the social science literature on language. These include the Harvard social-psychological dictionaries which are based, in part, on the work of Talcott Parsons and embody structural-functional concepts (Stone et al, 1966, chapters 4 and 5;1974); the Lasswell Value Dictionary centers around his theory of values (Peterson and Brewer, 1965;Lasswell, 1968). Recent special issues of journals have presented suggestive uses of microcomputers in handling text field note data in research ("Computers and Qualitative Data" in Qualitative Sociology (1984)).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextual content analysis

1990

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article suggests one way to systematically code textual data for research. The approach utilizes computer content analysis to examine patterns of emphasized ideas in text as well as the social context or underlying perspective reflected in the text. A conceptual dictionary is used to organize word meanings. An extensive profile of word meanings is used to characterize and discriminate social contexts. Social contexts are analyzed in relation to four reference dimensions (traditional. practical, emotional and analytic) which are used in the social science literature. The approach is illustrated with five widely varying texts, analyzed with selected comparative data. This approach has been useful in many social science investigations to systematically score open-ended textual information. Scores can be incorporated into quantitative analysis with other data, used as a guide to qualitative studies, and to help integrate strengths of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.Abbreviations: C-scores = Contextual scores, E-scores = Idea/emphasis scores, KWIC = Key Word In Context, MCCA = Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis An early version of this paper was presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings Seattle, April 12, 1984.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextual content analysis

1990

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The commonly expressed assumption that working-class patients do not wish a full explanation of illness seems to derive from the use of different sociolinguistic "codes" by doctors and patients (Fletcher, 1973) and particularly from working-class patients' hesitation in asking questions. Observations by Bernstein (1961Bernstein ( , !962a, 1962bBernstein ( , 1964aBernstein ( , 1964bBernstein ( , 1971Bernstein ( , 1973 and Lawton (1968), as well as related studies in the rapidly growing field of sociolinguistics (Cook-Gumperz, 1973;Labov, 1972aLabov, , 1972bGrimshaw, 1973Grimshaw, , 1974Fishman, 1971;Gumperz and Hymes, 1972), indicate that the communication gap between middle-class doctors and working-class patients may result from their customary use of different linguistic codes.…”

Section: Sociolinguistics and The Diffidence Of The Sick Poormentioning

confidence: 98%

The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication

et al. 1978

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper presents a summary of an on-going research project concerned with doctor-patient communications. Of specific interest are doctors' communications of information about illness to the patient. The communication of information in medical care situations is considered to be, at certain levels, analogous to the purposive, instructional communications in education.Sociological considerations guiding this research are summarized under four headings: (1) problems of uncertainty and power; (2) the definition of information; (3) sociolinguistics and the diffidence of the sick poor; and, (4) ethnomethodology and common sense constructs. The doctor-patient relationship is viewed as a micro-political situation in which information control is used, at least in part, to maintain patterns of dominance and subordination.The overall methodological objective of this research is to develop a research design, linked to these research objectives, which allows reproducible and generalizable conclusions about the informative process in a variety of clinical settings. This preliminary paper includes a discussion of technical problems arising from the study of doctor-patient relationships and communications; preliminary results of studies of non-verbal communication; and, qualitative themes in the informative process.

show abstract

Studies in dialogue and discourse. III. Utterance structure and utterance function in interrogative sequences

Mishler

1978

J Psycholinguist Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

On Language in Society: Part II

Cited by 4 publications

References 0 publications

Contextual content analysis

Contextual content analysis

The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication

Studies in dialogue and discourse. III. Utterance structure and utterance function in interrogative sequences

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About