Children’s socialization environments reflect cultural models of care giving that become evident in parental beliefs and behavior. Cultural models of the self-concept have also been claimed to reveal themselves in the conversational style of the caregiver. While previous studies have focused on cross-cultural differences in the contents of infant-directed speech, the present study follows a soc...

The aim of this study was to analyse how the patient is constructed and socially positioned in Swedish information. Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis methodology utilised on a sample 56 online information texts about cancer containing total 126,711 words. findings show an overarching informed consent guided by specific features produce norm that we name “the reasonable patient”, who r...

Users should be involved in information technology (IT) artifact development, but it is often difficult and rare, especially in the development of commercial IT artifacts for external use. This paper critically examines discursive construction of user involvement in academia and in the IT artifact product development industry. First, three academic discourses on user involvement are identified....