Papers by Alessandra Fasulo
Walking the autobiographical path: the spatial dimension of remembering in a memoir by Italo Calvino
Talking Down Pain in the Prosthesis Clinic: The Emergence of a Local Preference
Research on Language and Social Interaction
ABSTRACT Understanding and evaluating pain is a growing concern in clinical practice and health c... more ABSTRACT Understanding and evaluating pain is a growing concern in clinical practice and health care. In this article we examine how pain is talked about in 24 video-recorded visits of a team of medical professionals with postsurgery amputees. We identify a paradox: Although it is medically useful to identify postamputation pain (it can indicate problematic healing and deter application of a prosthesis), we found that there was a joint preference, by both patients and professionals, to minimize pain sensations. We show how both parties draw on turn design, sequential organization, and multimodal resources to acknowledge some kinds of unpleasant sensations while excluding types of pain that would be problematic in view of the prosthesis. We discuss the importance of the findings in terms of furthering the understanding of situated expression and reporting of pain, the emergence of local preferences in clinical settings, and preference organization in general. Data are in Italian.
Politics and the people : a study in political representation in UK Tv debates
The use of a questionnaire underpinning capability, opportunity, and motivation to determine the psychological and behavioural barriers to adherence in patients with asthma (The COM-B asthma study): Protocol for a cross sectional survey study. (Preprint)
BACKGROUND Asthma is a common lung condition that cannot be cured, but it can usually be effectiv... more BACKGROUND Asthma is a common lung condition that cannot be cured, but it can usually be effectively managed using available treatments [1]. Despite this, it is widely acknowledged that 70% of patients do not adhere to their asthma treatment [2]. Personalizing treatment by providing the most appropriate interventions based on the patient's psychological/behavioral needs, produces successful behaviour change [3]. However, health care providers have limited available resources to deliver a patient-centred approach to their psychological/behavioural needs, resulting in a current one-size-fits-all strategy due to the non-feasible nature of existing surveys. The solution would be to provide health care professionals with a clinically feasible questionnaire that identifies the patients personal psychological/behavioural factors to adherence. OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess a behavioural change questionnaire’s capacity to detect patients perceived psychological and behavioural barr...
Self-Observation in Ethnographic Writing
Only 2% of conversations end when we want them to – here’s why that’s cause for celebration
This is not a dinner: metacommunication in family dinnertime conversations
Talking Down Pain in the Prosthesis Clinic: The Emergence of a Local Preference
Research on Language and Social Interaction, Jan 2, 2022
ABSTRACT Understanding and evaluating pain is a growing concern in clinical practice and health c... more ABSTRACT Understanding and evaluating pain is a growing concern in clinical practice and health care. In this article we examine how pain is talked about in 24 video-recorded visits of a team of medical professionals with postsurgery amputees. We identify a paradox: Although it is medically useful to identify postamputation pain (it can indicate problematic healing and deter application of a prosthesis), we found that there was a joint preference, by both patients and professionals, to minimize pain sensations. We show how both parties draw on turn design, sequential organization, and multimodal resources to acknowledge some kinds of unpleasant sensations while excluding types of pain that would be problematic in view of the prosthesis. We discuss the importance of the findings in terms of furthering the understanding of situated expression and reporting of pain, the emergence of local preferences in clinical settings, and preference organization in general. Data are in Italian.
The value of conversation analysis for child mental health
Opening windows in each other's mind: social sharing of hypertext models
Chapter 3. Talking to children with atypical development
Dialogue Studies, 2021
Challenges of putting the patient expert approach into action
Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel, 2014
Talk and social interaction in the playground. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008
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... Academic Paper. Title: Talk and social interaction in the playground. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate,... more ... Academic Paper. Title: Talk and social interaction in the playground. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. Author: Alessandra Fasulo. Institution: University of Portsmouth. Linguistic Field: Discourse Analysis. CUP at LINGUIST, This article appears in Language in Society Vol. ...
Metacommunication in Family Dinnertime Conversations
Journal of Pragmatics, Sep 1, 2002
This paper is concerned with the indexical meaning of the pronoun 'I', in its marked use, in Ital... more This paper is concerned with the indexical meaning of the pronoun 'I', in its marked use, in Italian work-meeting conversation. The hypothesis driving the study is that, in a context in which situated identities are manifold, marking the pronoun is a device to highlight the most official of one's selves, thus changing the status of the utterance containing the marker. A typology of I-marked utterances is presented and the relative frequency of use is shown to vary with the organizational role of the participants. Detailed analysis of epistemic and performative I-marked utterances shows how role-identities are variously manipulated and mitigated through conversational devices such as self-repair, word delay, and metaphorical work. The discussion highlights how indexical meaning is a property of situated conversational practices and how marked pronouns can foreground selected identities in the cluster of selves that members of a work group can present to each other.
Text & Talk, 2008
Drawing on a set of workplace interaction corpora, both dyadic and multiparty, we present three n... more Drawing on a set of workplace interaction corpora, both dyadic and multiparty, we present three narrative forms departing from the established notion of storytelling. These have been called Rewindings, collaborative reconstructions of yet-unknown past events; Fictions, the creation of imaginary scenes; and Templates, condensed versions of experience providing information on unexpected outcomes or controversial occurrences. Without denying specificity to narrative discourse, we extend its definition here to the displacement of the described actions. We propose that, similarly to what is done in other social and human sciences, conversational studies ought to take into consideration the description of events that are not fully known at the onset of narration and that are partially or entirely suggested by the narrators. The study also contributes to the field of workplace studies, providing an illustration of the functioning of distributed cognition and situated knowledge by showing how narrative is a collaborative enterprise facilitating problem solving and the dissemination of competence.
Seeing the past: Learning history through group discussion of iconographics sources
The use of a questionnaire underpinning capability, opportunity, and motivation to determine the psychological and behavioural barriers to adherence in patients with asthma (The COM-B asthma study): Protocol for a cross sectional survey study. (Preprint)
BACKGROUND Asthma is a common lung condition that cannot be cured, but it can usually be effectiv... more BACKGROUND Asthma is a common lung condition that cannot be cured, but it can usually be effectively managed using available treatments [1]. Despite this, it is widely acknowledged that 70% of patients do not adhere to their asthma treatment [2]. Personalizing treatment by providing the most appropriate interventions based on the patient's psychological/behavioral needs, produces successful behaviour change [3]. However, health care providers have limited available resources to deliver a patient-centred approach to their psychological/behavioural needs, resulting in a current one-size-fits-all strategy due to the non-feasible nature of existing surveys. The solution would be to provide health care professionals with a clinically feasible questionnaire that identifies the patients personal psychological/behavioural factors to adherence. OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess a behavioural change questionnaire’s capacity to detect patients perceived psychological and behavioural barr...
Memories in filigree:the collective story of individual memory
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