Crawford P, Nolan P, Brown B
Department of English, University of Birmingham, England.
J Adv Nurs. 1995 Dec;22(6):1141-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1995.tb03116.x.
This paper argues that in their trainings health professionals are encouraged to use language naively as if it were a transparent medium of scientific communication. We contend that language use, particularly in the field of mental health care, should be studied in terms of its social functions and attention should be paid to the inevitably constructive nature of language in patients' records, in order that a 'fictional distance' opens up between patients and their records. Recent developments in literary theory and narrative analysis can be deployed as theoretical frameworks to understand this process, and we suggest that more attention to the use of language should be included in the educational programmes for health care professionals to counteract the risk of 'linguistic entrapment' or 'incarceration'.
本文认为，在培训过程中，健康专业人员被鼓励天真地使用语言，就好像它是科学交流的一种透明媒介。我们认为，语言的使用，尤其是在精神卫生保健领域，应该从其社会功能的角度进行研究，并且应该关注患者记录中语言不可避免的建构性本质，以便在患者与其记录之间打开一种“虚构距离”。文学理论和叙事分析的最新发展可以作为理论框架来理解这一过程，并且我们建议在医护专业人员的教育项目中应更多地关注语言的使用，以应对“语言陷阱”或“语言禁锢”的风险。
