TY - JOUR
T1 - Categorization and explanation of risk
T2 - A discourse analytical perspective
AU - Sarangi, Srikant
AU - Candlin, Christopher N.
PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - Categorization - generally understood as definition of situations (including events, actions, roles/identities, knowledge claims etc) in everyday and professional/institutional settings - is a meaning-making activity, deeply embodied in human experience and understanding. Language and discourse play a significant part in how we categorize events and things in discipline-specific ways. Contributors to this Special Issue of Health, Risk & Society approach risk categorization and its explanatory status in a range of healthcare settings - genetics, cancer, HIV/AIDS, hormone replacement therapy - from a discourse analytical perspective (broadly defined as language and interaction in context-specific environments). Research practice - what we choose to study, how we select our data sites and analytic frameworks and how we formulate our findings-constitutes categorization work par excellence and so remains a candidate project in reflexivity.
AB - Categorization - generally understood as definition of situations (including events, actions, roles/identities, knowledge claims etc) in everyday and professional/institutional settings - is a meaning-making activity, deeply embodied in human experience and understanding. Language and discourse play a significant part in how we categorize events and things in discipline-specific ways. Contributors to this Special Issue of Health, Risk & Society approach risk categorization and its explanatory status in a range of healthcare settings - genetics, cancer, HIV/AIDS, hormone replacement therapy - from a discourse analytical perspective (broadly defined as language and interaction in context-specific environments). Research practice - what we choose to study, how we select our data sites and analytic frameworks and how we formulate our findings-constitutes categorization work par excellence and so remains a candidate project in reflexivity.
KW - Accounts
KW - Categorization
KW - Discourse analysis
KW - Professional discourse
KW - Risk assessment
KW - Risk behaviour
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038045358&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1369857031000123902
DO - 10.1080/1369857031000123902
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:0038045358
SN - 1369-8575
VL - 5
SP - 115
EP - 124
JO - Health, Risk and Society
JF - Health, Risk and Society
IS - 2
ER -