Clare Jackson

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Researcher at University of York

Bringing together cutting-edge research from a group of international scholars, this innovative volume examines how people with dementia interact with others in a variety of social contexts, ranging from everyday conversation to clinical settings. Drawing on methods from conversation analysis, it sheds light on how people with dementia accomplish r...

How does ordering a test fit into new-problem medical consultations? Robinson (2003) has shown that there are four main activities in new problem consultations in primary care (establishing the reason for the visit, gathering information, delivering a diagnosis, recommending treatment), but he speculates that other types of medical consultation may...

The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE-111) is a neuropsychological test used in clinical practice to inform a dementia diagnosis. The ACE-111 relies on standardized administration so that patients’ scores can be interpreted by comparison with normative scores. The test is delivered and responded to in interaction between clinicians and patie...

Background We report follow-on research from our previous qualitative analysis of how neurologists offer patients choice in practice. This focus reflects the NHS’s emphasis on ‘patient choice’ and the lack of evidence-based guidance on how to enact it. Our primary study identified practices for offering choice, which we called ‘patient view elicito...

The UK’s Royal College of Surgeons (2016) has argued that health professionals must replace a ‘paternalistic’ approach to consent with ‘informed choice’. We engage with these guidelines through analysis of neurology consultations in two UK-based neuroscience centres, where informed choice has been advocated for over a decade. Based on 223 recorded...

This article examines the use of just-formulated advisings in ordinary, naturally occurring sequences of unsolicited advice giving when produced in response to troubles-tellings. Drawing on two examples from our broader collection, we demonstrate that such advisings are employed in response to advice resistance and function to minimize proposed cou...

This article discusses the changing nature of girlhood over the last century as it is through an empirical study of all editions of Girl Guide handbooks since 1910. The describes five strands of change, which the authors describe as ‘stringy’, insofar as together and are difficult to untangle from one another; yet they are also stories of that are...

Objective: Communication during labour is consequential for women's experience yet analyses of situated labour-ward interaction are rare. This study demonstrates the value of explicating the interactional practices used to initiate 'decisions' during labour. Methods: Interactions between 26 labouring women, their birth partners and HCPs were tra...

This article presents a conversation analytic examination of a telephone call in which a teenage girl updates her friend about developments in a relationship. The telling is in three phases, from initial reluctance, through first kiss to first sexual contact. Drawing on the notion of lower and upper bounded tellability, I analyse the talk for what...

This article examines communicative practices in Japanese and UK English accounts of extraordinary experiences. We compare the way in which specific narrative features are handled: description of the actual experience, and the completion of the narrative. We also examine some ways in which the accounts are rhetorically designed to address skeptical...

The way we refer to third parties in talk is one means through which relationships between speaker, recipients and referents are made relevant. A range of referring expressions is available and any number of expressions might correctly refer to a referent. One guide to selection is the preference for achieving recognition and the default practice i...

In this paper we address Hasting and Manning’s (2004) call for analysis of relational aspects of the performance and production of social identity, and in particular acknowledgement of the role of the other, or alterity, in identity work. Drawing from methods in the micro sociological study of social interaction, we examine a corpus of video record...

This paper reports a conversation analytic study of well-prefaced, self-initiated repairs in talk-in-interaction. We show that speakers use well-prefacing of self-repairs to manage the credibility of claims in talk. Specifically, well-prefaced self-repairs attend to the relevant accuracy of a turn-so-far by revising it but without retracting it. Fo...

11 Chapter Topics The landscape of human thought over the last two millennia has often considered the world discoverable through an understanding of its timeless defining features. In psychology this developed into a dominant focus on the individual's inner life of thoughts and memories, faculties for information processing, and evolutionary herita...

Drawing on a case study of a single data extract, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore the use of: (1) gendered linguistic terms (`girls' and `boys') that are treated as relevantly interactionally gendered by the participants; (2) use of a linguistically non-gendered term (`people') that is not treated as relevantly interactional...

Classification and classification systems organize everyday life and do so in ways that are increasingly automated. Classifiers classify the classifiable and are highly political. Yet, ironically, it is precisely through devising new forms of classification that social scientists can also intervene and develop new modes of resistance in everyday li...