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Zoe Nikolaidou currently works at the Department of Culture and Education, Södertörn University.
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The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the presence of an emerging written record may affect the content of an asylum narrative, based on which a decision concerning the asylum claimant’s right to receive protection eventually is taken. The lion’s share of studies on interpreter-mediated asylum interviews to date focus on risks involved with a...
In this paper, we conduct a critical discourse analytical study of asylum interviews in order to contribute to knowledge and awareness of (a) how asymmetrical power relations are discursively (re)produced as well as manoeuvred and negotiated during the interaction and (b) what this means in terms of positioning of the participants. Focusing on a nu...
I ett protokoll fört under en asylintervju återfanns en obegriplig mening som den asylsökande inte kände igen. I denna artikel undersöker vi vad som ledde fram till denna mening. Med samtalsanalys som teoretisk och metodisk ansats går vi igenom en 3,5 minuter lång sekvens hämtad från den ljudinspelade, tolkade asylintervju där den obegripliga meni...
This literature review aims to give an account of earlier studies in the field of interpreting in the asylum determination process, with a particular focus on the interviews and negotiations that take place when authorities process asylum cases.
The review is based on articles, reports and books that discuss interpreting in institutional contexts i...
In this paper we examine how traditional views of normality are negotiated, indorsed and resisted when talking about children with heart defects. Having as a starting point an ethnographic project that aimed to study knowledge construction when being pregnant or having a child with a heart defect, we focus on argumentation put forward by clinicians...
In this paper we examine health literacy as a set of practices that unfold in networked activity systems. Focusing on the literacy practices of pregnant couples and parents of children with heart defect, we show that they participate in multiple activities with the object of constructing knowledge about the child's condition. The contexts for these...
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The study examines online searching as a digital health literacy practice and focuses on parents of children with congenital heart defects. Over the period of four years, we have conducted interviews with couples at different stages of pregnancy or parenthood and have encouraged them to reflect on their literacy practices when receiving a heart def...
This article reports on research addressing the role of incident reporting at the workplace as a textual representation of lean management techniques. It draws on text and discourse analysis as well as on ethnographic data, including interviews, recorded interaction, and observations, from two projects on workplace literacy in Sweden: a study in an...
In this article we discuss the results of a study within the project Language work as care work. The study focuses on the documentation practices of carers and assistant nurses within three elder care facilities in Sweden. The aim is to explore how representations of work and work content are remediated and recontextualised in some of the key writt...
In this article we problematize our field roles as two linguistic ethnographers who aim to study the communication and documentation practices drawn upon by care workers in elderly care facilities in Sweden. Our field roles are discussed in relation to the complex nature of care workers' knowledge and competence, which results from three different...
In this paper, I show the relevance of using Activity Theory in the study of situated literacy. In order to do that, I draw on ethnographic data collected during a six-month period that focuses on the literacy practices of a warehouse administrator who studies on a work-basis for the completion of a National Vocational Qualification in the UK. The...
A two-week ethnographic research was curried out in the centre of Athens, in order to explore in which cases and for what reasons newcomers in Athens use literacy. Participant observation and a number of qualitative interviews revealed the great variety of literacy practices in the lives of newcomers. A focus is given on the various domains of life...
In this paper, I present a case study on a warehouse employee developing a professional portfolio in order to obtain a vocational qualification. Given that professional portfolios have been widely expanded, there is a need to study the literacy practices generated out of this new writing genre. The main questions addressed is the extent to which th...
In the last ten years, the elder care sector in Sweden has undergone signifi-cant changes. Following a general pattern in the market, nursing and retirement homes have changed from being administered by local authorities to becoming private institutions. In private care facilities, the elderly and their relatives have become customers selecting a c...
