The March paper is now up on the MCA website.
Nate
March Discussion Paper
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/
Virginia Navarro Virginia_Navarro@umsl.edu
Hyper Talk: The Social Construction of ADHD in Everyday Language
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/Navarro/navarro.html
This paper examines the ways that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) is socially constructed and reconstructed within the everyday
language use of lay persons in non-professional settings. A sample of speech
acts referring to persons or events having to do with ADHD in everyday
discourse constitute the core data. Through systematic screening of these
224 language-events identified in settings involving media, family, peers,
and work, five emergent conceptual themes are identified. These themes are
explicated using representative exemplars from the data. Further analysis
identifies three specific dominant Discourses (Gee, 1992; 1996) contributing
to the Everyday Discourse of ADHD; they are Media, Medical, and School
discourses. Conclusions raise issues about the moral opportunities and
responsibilities afforded and occluded by specific Discourses.
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