Managing Awkward, Sensitive, or Delicate Topics in (Chinese) Radio Medical Consultations
2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 52; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/0163853x.2014.954952
ISSN1532-6950
Autores Tópico(s)Multilingual Education and Policy
ResumoThis 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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