NEW LITERACY STUDIES AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS: RECIPIENT DESIGN IN HEALTH LITERACY PRACTICES
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https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i49.1308Keywords:
Health Literacy, New Literacy Studies, Conversation Analysis, Recipient DesignAbstract
: This article proposes an association between the principle of recipient design – a principle of human interaction and of fundamental importance to Conversation Analysis (CA), and some of the ideas that guide the New Literacy Studies (NLS). The interactional principle of recipient design becomes salient and relevant to NLS as it focuses precisely on the resources that interactants rely on in order to produce talk that is both context-sensitive and particularized to each interlocutor. Our analysis, that centers around medical consultations, demonstrates how physicians make use of a range of semiotic resources to adjust their talk to different interlocutors. The analysis shows that they do so by orienting to what their interlocutor displays in each new turn at talk not only concerning his/her understanding of what came before, but also on his/her level of health literacy which, in its turn, relates to his/her social, educational, cultural, and linguistic background. In addition to claiming that the principle of recipient design can (and perhaps should) be associated with and incorporated by the New Literacy Studies, we also sustain the relevance of further research that looks into that association and the possible practical advancements it can generate towards the promotion of more equitable citizens’ social participation.Downloads
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