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Abstract: Hip hop music contains lyrics that are very conversational and can be utilized like forms of marketing communication. However, unlike publicly known forms of marketing communication, products mentioned in hip hop music are free of promotional stigma. To begin the process of understanding the economic and social effects of placing brand mentions in hip hop music the authors undertook a content analysis to illuminate the frequency of use and implementation practices of brand mentions featured in hip hop music.

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Abstract: In pediatric visits that involve children with upper respiratory tract infections, whether or not to prescribe antibiotics is one of the most common and important decisions to be made. The role parents play in this process is frequently overlooked if it does not take the form of an overt request for medication. This paper examines history taking in pediatric visits of this type. I argue that through an interactional practice of adding additional symptoms in an environment where they have just provided a “no problem” answer, parents are subtly pushing physicians away from a “no problem” diagnosis (which would typically not be treated with antibiotics). The problems they add tend to be ones that encourage a physician to consider an alternative diagnosis and consequently an alternative treatment trajectory. And, physicians hear parents as encouraging them to pursue alternative trajectories and typically respond in this way.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper, through content analysis, examines the beliefs regarding the positive and negative consequences of drug use and non-use mentioned in the television anti-drug advertisements produced for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign from 1999-2002. The study found that the beliefs emphasized in the advertisements varied by year. The most frequent and consistently mentioned beliefs regarding the negative consequences of drug use were the “loss of athletic skills,” “messed up life,” “unachieved goals,” and “death.” The advertisements also frequently mentioned how children are under pressure to use drugs. The Integrative Model of Behavior prediction is used to analyze and relate these findings to previous evaluations of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

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Abstract: Overall, this paper provides an analysis of how speakers turn beginning design may exhibit aspects of their turn’s planned shape and type. In other words, the paper illustrates that speakers may utilize specific linguistic components that are produced in the beginning part of their turn in order to signal that they are in the process of initiating a new activity which has been occasioned by some prior talk. Specifically, this paper provides a conversation analytical examination of the sequential placement and the interactional function of the German lexical item genau (exactly) in everyday German conversation. The data corpus for this study consists of 25 hours of German telephone conversation and face-to-face interaction between relatives and close friends. An examination of the sequential placement of the German adverb genau in combination with its semantic content revealed that this particular linguistic component may perform a specific interactional function depending on where it is placed in a turn. The analysis of turn initial components suggests that one particular placement for such a lexical item is in an environment in which an item is brought to the speaker’s mind. Genau seems to mark an epistemological shift in the speaker’s mind, namely remembering an item that he or she wanted to mention in the talk and that has just been occasioned by the prior talk. Furthermore, by inserting the linguistic component speakers signal to their co-participant that a mentionable item that has just been remembered will be mentioned in the unfolding turn. In general, the analysis demonstrates how the grammatical structure of turn-beginnings may provide information about the unfolding turn and the subsequent talk/action which may be developed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Previous work suggests that Black institutions (Black media, etc.) work to maintain group identity. My research project moves to the next important and understudied question: How do these institutions make a difference in Black group identification?