By taking a discourse analytic orientation, this article joins this line of research, and delineates the situated and interactional nature of moral argumentations and rhetoric.
Because focus groups aim at discourse including collective orientations and normative meanings, the data gathered are not appropriate for assessing MHPs "real" practices in managing reproductive issues.
For example, there are likely to be tensions between the user focus of the empowerment discourse and the technical orientation of the prevention discourse or the privileging of the professional in the efficiency discourse.
Based on our study findings, we consider "reproductive autonomy" to be the key normative orientation dominating MPHs' discourse on the desire for children among psychiatric patients.
Related topics of interest include how dehumanizing and demonizing rhetoric extend beyond war to broader patterns of social violence based on intersectional discourses of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and other identity markers.
A major implication from the expert orientation of such a discourse would be expert disagreements and allegations by a suspicious public of experts holding partisan interests.
Regarding social trends, Penninx and Roosblad (2000) stress the importance of national contextual factors such as national identity and ideology, public discourse, legislation, and political structure and orientations.
Such attention was a significant means for taking an argumentative orientation where specific forms of discourse and intratextual work were essential ingredients.
The move caused a hot debate in the media with sexuality and sexual orientation at the heart of the discourse.
Mr. Romney's orientation has not only flooded the discourse of Talk Radio, but has even seeped into the pages of The New York Times.
