Women's (limited) agency over their sexual bodies: Contesting contraceptive recommendations in Brazil

Gatekeeping and factors underlying decisions not to refer to mental health services after self-harm: Triangulating video-recordings of consultations, interviews, medical records and discharge letters

“…Past studies have analyzed video-recorded healthcare encounters to examine how treatment decisions are made in situ (Wang 2020;Stivers & Timmermans 2021;Tate 2022;McCabe 2021;Ostermann 2021;Dalby Landmark et al 2017;Kaminskiy & Finlay 2019;Pino et al 2020). These studies use Conversation Analysis (Sidnell & Stivers 2012;Tietbohl & White 2022) to microanalyze video-recorded clinical interactions and identify systematic patterns in how practitioners mental versus physical health diagnosis (Tate 2019).…”

Introduction

“…Apart from these core themes in Applied Linguistics, CA research in Brazil and on talk-in-interaction in Portuguese has expanded to cover Applied Linguistics research in contexts beyond language education and educational settings, most prominently, in health and legal settings. The work on health interactions focused mostly on the interplay between governmental policies and their implementation in actual doctor-patient interactions (Ostermann & Meneghel, 2012), communication of diagnostic news Ostermann, Frezza, Rosa, & Zen, 2017), check-up consultations and prognostic discussions around chronic diseases (De Souza & Ostermann, 2016), recommendations (Andrade, 2017;Ostermann, 2021, in press b), autism (Cruz, 2018;Cruz & Cots, 2021), and speech therapy (Oliveira & Dias, 2018). Another group of studies has looked at, in particular, how issues typically understood as 'macro' (e.g., gender and sexuality; literacy; authority) emerge and are dealt with in interactions (Alberti, Kruger, Almeida, & Stenzel, 2021;Frezza, Ostermann, & De Souza, 2017;Ostermann, in press a;Ostermann & Perobelli, 2019;Ostermann & Perobelli, 2019Ostermann, Frezza, & Perobelli, 2021;Sell & Ostermann, 2012).…”

A social semiotic study of public institutional websites focusing on teenage pregnancy in Brazil

“…Teenage pregnancy, especially unplanned, constitutes a severe health problem in Brazil and affects mostly young women with low financial resources and low educational levels (Ostermann, 2021). According to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the Brazilian teenage pregnancy rate is higher than that of the rest of the world: for every thousand teenagers aged 15 to 19, 53 become mothers, while in the rest of the world the rate is 41 (Pretti et al, 2022).…”