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Therapeutic Ways with Words
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Description
To answer some of these questions from a linguistic stand-point, Kathleen Ferrara analyses samples of psychotherapeutic discourse between several therapists and their clients. She focuses on cohesion and the joint construction of digalogue to get at her main concern of just how talk can be therapeutic, and at the same time addresses recent concerns in the study of conversation. Her thesis is that repetition and continuity are resources of language which speakers can recombine in various ways to create meaning within a given social context, and she looks at the many ways these cohesive devices are used in therapy speech.
Therapeutic Ways with Words should appeal not only to linguists and people concerned with language in the professions, but to the large audience connected to psychotherapy.
'The scholarship reflected in the manuscript is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. Ferrara offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results ... It represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."
Neal Norrick, Professor of English-Linguistics, Northern Illinois University
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
1994-04-07
Publication Date:
1994-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0195083377
ISBN13:
9780195083378
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Weight:
502 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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