The category 'natural' in the discourse of couples who used medically assisted procreation

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_2CE7E5C391CC
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
The category 'natural' in the discourse of couples who used medically assisted procreation
Périodique
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Léchot C., Grossen M., Laufer D., Ansermet F., Germond M.
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
8
Numéro
2
Pages
187-208
Langue
anglais
Résumé
As a constantly evolving set of complex biotechnologies, medically assisted procreation (MAP) jeopardises a category that seems to be taken for granted: that of 'natural'. What is 'natural' or not when MAP is used to procreate? What are the boundaries between a 'natural' and a 'non-natural' fertilisation?
Drawing upon a dialogical approach to language and cognition, our study examined the semantic field of the category 'natural' as expressed in interviews between a psychiatrist and seven couples who resorted to MAP and had to decide whether to keep their frozen pre-embryonic cells (zygotes) for further procreation or to allow them be destroyed. We examined how these couples evoked the category 'natural' and showed that in their argumentation, the category 'natural' encompassed a wide variety of phenomena, which shifted the boundaries between the 'natural' and 'non-natural'. In so doing, the couples 'renaturalised' MAP, normalized it, moved the boundaries between what is legitimate or not, and showed their accountability. Hence, reference to the category 'natural' seemed to act both as an argumentative and a psychological resource in the elaboration of the person's experience in resorting to MAP.
Mots-clé
procréation médicalement assisté, dialogisme, argumentation, nature, catégorisation
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07/12/2013 13:38
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20/08/2019 13:11
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