Uses of the ‘sustainability’ formula in the health area: the example of volunteering practice in hospitals

Authors

  • Tatiana Piccardi UNIFESP/FAPESP/AHPAS, São Paulo

Keywords:

Discourse. Discourse analysis. Formula. Sustainability.

Abstract

The term ‘sustainability’ and its variations has become what Krieg-Planque (2011, 2010) calls ‘formula’. In this paper, I propose to (i) discuss the use of the ‘sustainability’ formula in the health welfare from the experience of volunteers working in this area, reflecting on the causes and consequences of its diffusion; and (ii) investigate the usefulness of this linguistic-discursive concept for understanding the social contexts in which certain lexical items are circulating as a formula.

Author Biography

Tatiana Piccardi, UNIFESP/FAPESP/AHPAS, São Paulo

Tatiana Piccardi has a doctorate in Portuguese Language from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), a post-doctorate in linguistics at the State University of Campinas (Brazil). Nowadays she is a researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil). Her research is supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

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Vol. 35 No. 2 (2014)

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