Background and activities
I am a Full professor in Applied Linguistics and Professional Discourse Studies, with a specialization in Health Communication. My main research areas are discourse analysis in institutional and professional domains. Based on my work on Professional Discourse Studies in various healthcare and medical settings I have engaged with how concepts like co-construction, communicative activity type, discursive power, and interactional management can be employed to understand patient participation and have practical implications for user involvement.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) Team talk and team decision processes: a qualitative discourse analytical approach to 10 real-life medical emergency team encounters. BMJ Open. vol. 8:e023749 (11).
- (2018) Interaksjon med brukere i Nav: Analyse av samtaledata som grunnlag for fagutvikling. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. vol. 21 (3).
- (2016) Visual Access in Interpreter-Mediated Learning Situations for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing High-School Students Where an Artifact Is in Use. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. vol. 21 (2).
- (2016) Team talk and team activity in simulated medical emergencies: a discourse analytical approach. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. vol. 24 (135).
- (2016) Discourse types and (re)distribution of responsibility in simulated emergency team encounters. Communication & Medicine. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society. vol. 13.
- (2015) Negotiating parental/familial responsibility in genetic counselling. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. vol. 9 (3).
- (2012) Om det uuttalte - det relevansteoretiske implikaturbegrepet i møte med autentiske data. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. vol. 30 (1).
- (2012) Evidence-based familial risk explanations in cancer genetic counselling. Health, Risk and Society. vol. 14 (7-8).
- (2009) The role of role-play: Managing activity ambiguities in simulated doctor consultation in medical education. Communication & Medicine. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society. vol. 6 (1).
Part of book/report
- (2016) Negotiating parental/familial responsibility in genetic counselling. Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings.
- (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. Constructing collectivity. 'We' across languages and contexts.
- (2012) Risikovurdering i genetisk veiledning. Helsesosiologi: Analyser av helse, sykdom og behandling.
- (2003) Det kommunikative samspillet mellom pasient og helsepersonell. Kvalitet i samspill : innføring i kommunikasjon og kulturell forståelse for helsepersjonell / red. av Hildfrid Vikelsmo Brataas og Tove Steen-Olsen.
Report/dissertation
- (2018) Rapport: UTVEI – Utvikling av veiledningssamtalen i NAV. Forskningsbasert utviklingsarbeid for og med veiledere. 2018.
- (2005) Den flerbunnete samtalen: En studie av samtaler mellom pasient og student fra sykepleier- og medisinerutdanning. 2005. ISBN 82-471-6993-2.
- (1999) "Eg har sett det med egne aua": Språk, kjønn og troverdighet i lokalpolitikk. 1999.