Ambiguous discursive practices in health-care project plans: a keyword-assisted critical discourse analysis of the term 'patient'
| Autor: | Marjo Suhonen, Pirjo Lukkarila, Sanna Laulainen, Nina Lunkka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Communication studies 0211 other engineering and technologies Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Public relations General Business Management and Accounting Critical discourse analysis Project planning 021105 building & construction 0502 economics and business Health care Sociology Project management Project plan business Function (engineering) 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal. 16:32-53 |
| ISSN: | 1746-5648 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to investigate ambiguous language use in health-care project plans in a manner that accounts for the wider, institutional, public health-care context.Design/methodology/approachThe article deployed a case study approach and drew from Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) as well as a keyword analysis to investigate two time-sequenced versions of the same project planning document for a health-care project in Finland.FindingsIn the project plans investigated, the study identified patient as a keyword possessing various meanings within the public health-care context. By examining the discursive practices around the keyword patient, the study demonstrated their role in constituting the institutional context as well as the function of this context in constraining these practices.Originality/valueBy looking at the potential of the CDA to investigate discursive practices of the keyword in two sequential versions of a project plan within the broader context of public health care, the study adds to the scant existing literature on critically oriented health-care project communication studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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