Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, P O Box 624, SE-751 26 Uppsala, Sweden.
Sociol Health Illn. 2011 Jul;33(5):761-76. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01330.x. Epub 2011 May 11.
An inherent part of the general understanding of illness is that it is incapacitating, making those who are ill unable to do things that they would normally do. Staying at home from work is a common consequence, and what `ill' people do while at home then becomes accountable. This article explores online discourse about the kinds of activities people engage in when on sick leave. It employs a discursive psychological framework for analysis, drawing heavily on conversation analysis. A Swedish internet forum thread on sick leave is examined, focusing on how the participants describe and account for the things they do when staying home from work due to illness. The analysis suggests that the participants' accounts of their activities delicately manage the legitimacy of their sick leave. In examining how this is done in practice, the analysis makes visible the balancing act between being ill enough to stay home from work and well enough for other activities. In the context of recent debates in Sweden and elsewhere about the legitimacy of sick leave in different situations, the analysis of how legitimacy is actually negotiated is an important concern, making visible the moral work of being on sick leave.
疾病的普遍认知中有一个固有部分，即它会使人丧失能力，使患病者无法进行通常会做的事情。因病请假而呆在家里是常见的后果，那么病人在家时所做的事情就需要负责了。本文探讨了人们在病假期间从事的各种活动的在线话语。它采用了话语心理学框架进行分析，大量借鉴了会话分析。本文考察了一个关于病假的瑞典互联网论坛帖子，重点关注参与者如何描述和说明他们因生病而呆在家里时所做的事情。分析表明，参与者对自己活动的描述巧妙地管理了他们病假的合法性。在实际考察如何做到这一点时，分析揭示了在因病请假和从事其他活动之间保持平衡的行为。在瑞典和其他地方最近关于不同情况下病假合法性的辩论背景下，对合法性实际上是如何协商的分析是一个重要的关注点，它使病假的道德工作变得可见。
