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Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings

Author : Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781845539146
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings written by Jan-Ola Östman and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume strengthens the case for analysing discourse from the point of view of discourse participants' accountability and responsibility. It adds an important and largely neglected strand to research in discourse studies and pragmatics by analysing the expression and attribution of responsibility, particularly in professional discourse. Debates on social and professional responsibility have proliferated in recent years both in the public sphere (e.g. in connection with corporate responsibility reports) and in more local practices (e.g. as manifested in the publication of in-house codes of conduct). However, there is little academic research on professional discourse which systematically addresses the ways in which responsibility relations are construed in language use. This volume contains a number of case studies focusing on different professional settings: media, health care and social work. The types of data examined range from globally available mass-consumed discourse (such as news agency dispatches) to local and essentially private face-to-face encounters (such as counselling sessions). The studies examine different linguistic features (such as reported speech in written texts and backchannelling in spoken encounters) and different types of meanings (such as agency and causality). The studies draw on different methodological approaches (mainly pragmatics, conversation analysis and (critical) discourse analysis). A common thread running through the contributions is that responsibility is not a stable quality of people or institutions, but a dynamic and variable resource that language users negotiate in interaction.

Risk Discourse and Responsibility

Author : Annelie Ädel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249733
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Risk Discourse and Responsibility by : Annelie Ädel

Download or read book Risk Discourse and Responsibility written by Annelie Ädel and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field that not only targets elements of risk, safety and security, but crucially requires aspects of responsibility for in-depth analysis. Providing a rich illustration of ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools, the volume brings together scholars from different disciplines within the study of language. An Introduction and an Epilogue highlight the intricate relationship between risk and responsibility. Part 1 deals with expert and lay perspectives on risk; Part 2 with emerging genres for risk discourse; Part 3 with risk and technology and Part 4 with ways of managing risk. The topics covered – such as COVID-19, nuclear energy, machine translation, terrorism – are socially pertinent and timely.

Language Research in Multilingual Settings

Author : Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030346714
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Research in Multilingual Settings by : Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste

Download or read book Language Research in Multilingual Settings written by Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the steps undertaken by language researchers to disseminate their findings at sites of practice. It discusses questions that arise from such efforts and provides meaningful, real-life, first-hand accounts of both interactions with practitioners and practitioners’ feedback. The authors use narrative accounts, case studies, and semi-ethnographies of focus groups and workshops to draw a full picture of dissemination, its intricacies, multiple stakeholder interests, reflexivity challenges, and future relevance and responsibility for all parties involved. It is an attempt to fill the gap between the end of research domains and the places of dissemination of research findings, and the book will be of interest to applied linguistics researchers, students and scholars of organisational discourse, and practitioners working in multilingual settings.

Complicity in Discourse and Practice

Author : Jef Verschueren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000442845
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Complicity in Discourse and Practice written by Jef Verschueren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonplace to say that we are living in troubled times. Liberal democracy is in crisis. Academic freedom is seriously constrained. The media offers less insight and analysis than could be expected given the proliferation of communication tools. Based on decades of research into the social and ideological functioning of discourse and with a focus on politics, universities, and the media, Jef Verschueren offers an analysis of current practices, asks whether we are all complicit, and makes suggestions for what we can do. Central to this book is the notion of derailed reflexivity, referring to the observation that politics, institutions, and news reporting tend to be excessively aimed at public opinion, impression management, and clicks, to the detriment of policies addressing social justice issues, high-quality service, and media content. Highlighting that education is the cornerstone for democratic choices and ensures that we can critically assess media content, this book shows that shared responsibility can be a source of hope and that everyone has the power to intervene. Complicity in Discourse and Practice is a call to action for readers and a plea for actively minding the ecology of the public sphere.

Pragmatics in Practice

Author : Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728914X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatics in Practice by : Jan-Ola Östman

Download or read book Pragmatics in Practice written by Jan-Ola Östman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, discursive, variational, or interactional angles, this 9th volume focuses on what pragmatics is good for – beyond the very discipline of pragmatics as such. The chapters in the volume thus address the importance of taking a pragmatic perspective on traditional fields of applied linguistics (contrastive and error analysis, translation), and they address the core of pragmatics as the study of language use (with phenomena ranging from irony and emphasis to literacy and mass media, and with approaches to the function of language like rhetoric, stylistics, corpus analysis, and general semantics). The volume contains chapters not only on the spoken and written modes of communication, but also on signed language pragmatics and on computer-mediated communication. The impact and usefulness of taking a pragmatic perspective on language for a deeper understanding of clinical and rehabilitation practices has recently received ever more focus; in this volume, aspects of this direction of research are dealt with in the chapter on clinical pragmatics. In most of the chapters in the volume, ethics has a core role to play, not only in issues of authenticity in general in relation to research on language use, but also in issues that have a direct influence on the (linguistic) culture and society we live in, irrespective of whether we are part of a (linguistic) majority or a minority, or a minority within a minority: language policy and language planning, language ecology, and language in relation to legal matters. In all of these fields, we see the importance of research within pragmatics as a discipline dealing with how language influences our everyday lives. All in all, the volume presents different perspectives on how research in pragmatics not only can be put to practice, but how pragmatics is used as a tool to gain a better understanding of the world we live in.

Genetic Testing

Author : Michael Arribas-Ayllon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134026285
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Genetic Testing written by Michael Arribas-Ayllon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as genetic professionals. This book explores the ways in which genetic testing generates not only probabilities of potential futures, but also enjoys new forms of social, individual and professional responsibility. Concerns about confidentiality and informed consent involving children, the assessment of competence and maturity, the ability to engage in shared decision-making through acts of disclosure and choice, are just some of the issues that are examined in detail.

Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines

Author : Franziska Gygax
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269033
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines by : Franziska Gygax

Download or read book Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines written by Franziska Gygax and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of ‘narrative’ in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels, Renaissance medical treatises and reports, short stories, reflective writing, creative writing, and online narratives. The interdisciplinary dialogue shows the richness and scope of the concept ‘narrative’ and demonstrates how crucial it is for practices in the medical context as well as in the contributing disciplines. The collection raises awareness of the great variety and multivocality of narratives on the experience of illness besides paying heed to the many different positions and angles from which these narratives can be perceived, read, and analyzed. The wide range of approaches assembled in this collection provides a comprehensive view on illness and health and on the multiple ways in which they are represented in narrative.

Explorations in Internet Pragmatics

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694455
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Internet Pragmatics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes the reader on an exploration in the dynamics underlying digital interaction. The chapters investigate the ways in which individuals shape and interpret intentions, construct identities, and engage in interpersonal exchanges. Online platforms from forums and Wikipedia to Periscope, YouTube and WhatsApp are approached with multifaceted qualitative methods. Aside from English, languages studied include Bangla, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and Norwegian. The range of phenomena, platforms and languages shed light on the complex and nuanced ways of communication in digital spaces.

The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199697965
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics written by Yan Huang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.

Constructions in Contact

Author : Hans C. Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263302
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Constructions in Contact written by Hans C. Boas and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages, the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.

Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions

Author : Christopher N. Candlin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110214229
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions by : Christopher N. Candlin

Download or read book Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions written by Christopher N. Candlin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents mayor contributions of Applied Linguistics to the understanding of communications in the professions. The first two parts of this book deal with the theoretical and methodological orientations of professional communication studies, the history and development of professional communication studies, highlighting the discursive turn of Applied Linguistic research that goes far beyond the established paradigm of Language for Specific Purposes. The third part - the core of this book - presents research into professional practices from various domains (e.g. law, healthcare, business and management, organizations), sites of engagement (as e.g. lawyer-client-conference, doctor-patient interaction) and with respect to different themes that are generalizable across domains and sites (as e.g. communicative aspects of action and practice, of assessment and appraisal). In the final part, professionals from various domains evaluate the contribution to their work so far made by Applied Linguistics.

New Adventures in Language and Interaction

Author : Jürgen Streeck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027256004
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book New Adventures in Language and Interaction written by Jürgen Streeck and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book sixteen international scholars of language and social interaction describe their distinct frameworks of analysis. Taking conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics as their points of departure and investigating ordinary conversation as well as institutions such as health care, therapy, and city council meetings, they often incorporate gesture, prosody, and the listener's behavior in the analysis of talk. While some approaches are grounded in a critique of the major schools of interaction analysis, others integrate the interactionist perspective with ideas from fields such as systemic-functional linguistics, distributed cognition, and the sociology of knowledge. Each chapter combines a statement of the terms and methods of analysis with an exemplary analysis of a moment of interaction. "New Adventures in Language and Interaction" gives an excellent overview of the novelty and diversity of interaction-focused perspectives on language and of the heterogeneity of approaches that have evolved from the pioneering work of Sacks and Schegloff, Gumperz, and their co-workers.

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research

Author : Ivy Bourgeault
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473971179
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research written by Ivy Bourgeault and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods. The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research and consists of: - A series of case studies in the ways in which qualitative methods have contributed to the development of thinking in fields relevant to policy and practice in health care. - A section examining the main theoretical sources drawn on by qualitative researchers. - A section on specific techniques for the collection of data. - A section exploring issues relevant to the strategic place of qualitative research in health care environments. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is an invaluable source of reference for all students, researchers and practitioners with a background in the health professions or health sciences.

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

Author : Eva-Maria Graf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262721
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching by : Eva-Maria Graf

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching written by Eva-Maria Graf and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching is the first linguistic monograph on executive coaching, a recent, not fully professionalized, yet booming helping professional format in the organizational realm. The book is positioned at the interface between applied linguistic analysis and the activity of coaching, coupled with its structuring professional theory. It presents the Basic Activity Model of coaching, a model for the qualitative analysis and description of the discursive co-construction of coaching by coach and client within and across individual coaching sessions and whole processes. The analysis is based on 150 hours of authentic data from the coaching approach Emotionally Intelligent Coaching and presents coaching as hybrid and interdiscursive helping professional format. The gained insights into the discursive layout of coaching interactions advance our linguistic understanding of helping professions as such, contribute to the theoretical and methodological underpinning of coaching and help promote the coaching practice.

Studies in Contrastive Linguistics

Author : Cristina Mourón Figueroa
Publisher : Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN 13 : 9788497506489
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Contrastive Linguistics written by Cristina Mourón Figueroa and published by Univ Santiago de Compostela. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse, Ideology and Specialized Communication

Author : Giuliana Garzone
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039108886
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Discourse, Ideology and Specialized Communication written by Giuliana Garzone and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the issue of ideology in specialized communication in professional, institutional and disciplinary settings across domains as diverse as law, healthcare, corporate management, migration, NGOs, etc. What unites the contributors is their commitment to a discourse view of language use, i.e., the view that organisational and professional practices are rooted in social, ideological orders, although a variety of perspectives on the exact nature of the relationship between ideology and discourse can be discerned in individual chapters. The acts of interpretation - by participants and analysts alike - are invested in ideology, explicitly or implicitly. This manifest/hidden duality surrounding ideology-in-discourse constitutes the main focus. Challenging the traditional presumption of objectivity, impersonality and non-involvement that has often characterized research on Language for Speciﬁc Purposes, this book demonstrates how the specialized communication setting is a critical site where ideology is intrinsically embodied in discursive practices.

Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media

Author : Melissa Yoong
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030555445
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media by : Melissa Yoong

Download or read book Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media written by Melissa Yoong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the professional discourses produced in women’s media in Malaysia and the subject positions that they make available for career women. Drawing on feminist critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics and feminist conversation analysis, it identifies a range of gendered discourses around employment and motherhood that are underpinned by postfeminism and neoliberal feminism. Through close linguistic analysis of magazine and newspaper articles and radio talk, the study reveals that these discourses substitute balance, individual success, self-transformation and positive feelings for structural change, and entrench the very issues hindering gender workplace equality. Chapters discuss topics such as sexism, work-family balance, extensive and intensive mothering, breadwinning, gender stereotypes, beauty work, ‘synthetic sisterhood’, media practices and gender equality policies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of language and gender, discourse analysis, and media, communication and cultural studies as well as policy-makers, media practitioners and feminist activists.