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Deontic authority and the maintenance of lay and expert identities during joint decision making: Balancing resistance and compliance
Discourse Studies ( IF 1.871 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 , DOI: 10.1177/14614456211016821
Melisa Stevanovic 1
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Expertise is commonly viewed as a professionalized competence in a specific field. Expert professional identities are produced and reproduced through professional training and other socialization mechanisms, which work to generate for a specific group of individuals a specific set of expert skills and knowledge. In this paper, I examine participants’ orientations to their distinct expert professional identities from the perspective of deontic authority. Drawing on 15 video-recorded church workplace meetings between pastors and cantors as data, and conversation analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, I analyze situations where a non-expert participant makes a proposal that the expert participant orients to as reasonable to comply with. Specifically, I demonstrate how the expert participants respond to these proposals with displays of deontic authority, arguably in an attempt to maintain their expert identities in the face of their de facto compliance with the proposals. In these situations, the expert participants are shown to invoke (1) a past decision of their own, (2) a future decision of their own, or (3) a pattern that is beyond both participants’ control. Each of these practices involves the expert participant balancing resistance and compliance by minimally acknowledging the content of the non-expert participant’s proposal, while excluding the non-expert from those who have deontic authority in the matter. In so doing, the expert speaker implies that the non-expert proposal speaker lacks (1) procedural knowledge about the specific matters about which it is relevant to make proposals to experts and (2) access to the distinct experiential perspective that characterizes expert perception of things. It is thus argued that, in this context, the mere claims of deontic authority, produced without any substantial displays of expert knowledge, can serve the maintenance of expert professional identities.



中文翻译:

道义权威以及在联合决策过程中维护非专业和专家身份:平衡阻力和合规性

专业知识通常被视为特定领域的专业能力。专家职业身份是通过专业培训和其他社会化机制产生和复制的,这些机制旨在为特定的个人群体产生一组特定的专家技能和知识。在本文中,我从道义权威的角度考察了参与者对他们独特的专家职业身份的取向。以牧师和康托尔之间的 15 次视频录制的教会工作场所会议为数据,并将对话分析作为理论和方法框架,我分析了非专家参与者提出的建议,专家参与者倾向于合理遵守的情况。具体来说,我展示了专家参与者如何通过展示道义权威来回应这些提案,可以说是为了在他们事实上遵守提案的情况下保持他们的专家身份。在这些情况下,专家参与者会调用(1)他们自己过去的决定,(2)他们自己未来的决定,或(3)超出两个参与者控制的模式。这些做法中的每一种都涉及专家参与者通过最低限度地承认非专家参与者的提案的内容来平衡阻力和合规性,同时将非专家排除在该事项上具有道义权威的人之外。这样做时,专家发言者暗示非专家提案发言者缺乏 (1) 与向专家提出提案相关的特定事项的程序知识,以及 (2) 获得表征专家对事物感知的独特经验视角。因此,有人认为,在这种情况下,在没有任何实质性专业知识展示的情况下产生的仅仅是道义权威的主张,可以服务于专家专业身份的维护。

更新日期:2021-09-16
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