Talking food : everyday dieting practices in a weight management group

摘要: This thesis used fifty hours of naturally occurring video and audio taped data from the ‘weigh-in’ section four commercial weight management groups in East Midlands England. is a discursive psychological conversation analytic investigation turn-taking organization talk, examining what group leaders members make relevant their talk about food dieting. The was transcribed using Jeffersonian method. Group attend weekly, are weighed - gain, loss or maintenance recorded on membership card. chapters follow format meeting exploring firstly how manage practices getting ready to be weighed; then ‘news’ told receipted; before ‘advice-giving’ constructed final chapter deals with issues morality accountability leaders’ members’ talk. Analysis shows that ‘pre-weigh practices’ involved consists two robust patterns, 1) practice undressed not oriented by either avoided direct eye contact concerned themselves other business 2) when no undressing took place, were much more comfortable contact. These sequences show body its particular ways within, as part weighed. showed telling receipting news gets done differently depending whether have gained, lost maintained weight. When sequence included ‘pre-announcement’ TCU punctuated marked trouble. loss, only produced pre-account contained Finally, had weight, delivered bluntly, there evidence In relation advice-giving, analysis repeatedly worked assert epistemic priority avoid having acknowledge advice receipted minimally. accounts reference moral evaluation, such blame culpability. Sometimes an account circumvent being held publicly accountable for event action. It became apparent both could orient themselves, behaviour without it within framework. Therefore, exploration ‘dieting-practices’ DP CA can intricate turn practices.