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Title |
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Chapter 3: Owning responsible actions/selves: Role-relational trajectories in counselling for childhood genetic testing - Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Srikant Sarangi; Cardiff University; United Kingdom |
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Linguistics; Applied Linguistics |
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parental role; moral responsibility; causal responsibility; self-other dynamics; account; excuse; justification; genetic counselling |
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Subject classification |
Discourse Studies; Pragmatics; Linguistics (CF); Discourse analysis (CFG) |
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Description |
Abstract |
The chapter offers a role-relational perspective on responsibility, as a complement to the agency-and-intentionality dimension usually associated with responsible action. A role-relational perspective foregrounds a dynamic notion of role vis-à-vis self-other relations in owning responsible actions/selves. The counselling context of childhood genetic testing is used as a way of illustrating the complex role-relational trajectories which underpin parental accounts of moral and causal responsibility. Drawing upon the distinction between ‘excuse’ and ‘justification’ in accounting for conduct, and by adopting a thematic discourse analytic framework, the study suggests that parental accounts orient towards the following: balancing of advantages and disadvantages of childhood testing; benefits of knowing for present and future purposes; and the role-relational work underpinning the decision about testing. Although articulation of moral and causal responsibility is nuanced in parental accounts, justifications for actions/decisions mainly take the form of causal responsibility, expressed typically in the ‘if-then’ format. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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22-Apr-2016 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26838 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.26838 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings |
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Language |
English=en |
En |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |