Engaging death: Narrative and constructed dialogue in Advance Care Planning discussions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.v11i2.18616Keywords:
advance care planning, constructed dialogue, end-of-life, hypothetical narrative, narrative, reported speech, quotativesAbstract
Advance Care Planning (ACP) remains extremely low in the US, due to numerous institutional and cultural barriers and discomfort in discussing death. There is a need for guidance about how patient and healthcare providers can effectively engage in ACP discussion. Here we analyze the linguistic strategies that focus-group participants use when discussing ACP in detailed ways. Prevalent linguistic structures in effective ACP discussions were loved ones’ end-of-life narratives, hypothetical narratives, and constructed dialogue. In elucidating spontaneous, unprompted approaches to effective discussion of end-of-life issues, such research can help to dislodge communicative barriers to ACP so that more people are prepared to engage the process.Published
2015-08-17
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Modan, G., & Bose Brill, S. (2015). Engaging death: Narrative and constructed dialogue in Advance Care Planning discussions. Communication and Medicine, 11(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.v11i2.18616