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Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser.: Therapeutic Ways with Words by Kathleen Warden Ferrara (1994, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195083385

ISBN-139780195083385

eBay Product ID (ePID)86860

Product Key Features

Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTherapeutic Ways with Words

Publication Year1994

SubjectPsychotherapy / General, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / Psycholinguistics, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorKathleen Warden FERRARA

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Psychology

SeriesOxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN93-002170

Reviews"Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern Illinois University "A contribution to the field of sociolinguistics."--Language, "Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern Illinois University "A contribution to the field of sociolinguistics."-- Language, "Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern Illinois University"A contribution to the field of sociolinguistics."--Language"Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern Illinois University"A contribution to the field of sociolinguistics."--Language, "Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kindof research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern Illinois University, "Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick,Northern Illinois University "A contribution to the field of sociolinguistics."--Language, "Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not justup-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data justbegging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, andthus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of researchwe need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern IllinoisUniversity, "Ferrara's scholarship is not just sound, but creative; not just up-to-date, but up to the minute. She offers insightful treatments of data just begging for attention in light of recent developments in discourse analysis, and thus contributes cutting-edge results. Her work represents the kind of research we need much more of in linguistics today."--Neal Norrick, Northern Illinois University"A contribution to the field of sociolinguistics."--Language

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal616.8914

SynopsisTherapeutic Ways with Words provides a unique glimpse into language use in psychotherapy, an important speech event which has previously been shrouded in mystery. This important book shows how both clients and therapists accomplish their aims through language, which, paradoxically, is both the method of diagnosis and the medium of treatment in this cultural practice. With a discourse analysis of tape recordings and transcripts of actual psychotherapy sessions enhanced by a variety of ethnographic observations, Kathleen Warden Ferrara explores the skillful and creative uses of language in the complicated speech event of psychotherapy. Shedding light on discourse practices such as retellings of personal experience narrative, jointly constructed sentences and metaphorical extensions, and strategic uses of repetition, the study emphasizes the interactive nature of all discourse and shows how language is mutually constructed as people interweave pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives., This is a linguistic analysis of the discourse between therapist and client in psychotherapy sessions. Ferrara emphasizes the interactive nature of the discourse, and shows how language is mutually constructed as the participants interweave bits and pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives into the discussion., Therapeutic Ways with Words provides a unique glimpse into language use in psychotherapy, an important speech event which has previously been shrouded in mystery. This important book shows how both clients and therapists accomplish their aims through language, which, paradoxically, is both the method of diagnosis and the medium of treatment in this cultural practice. With a discourse analysis of tape recordings and transcripts of actual psychotherapysessions enhanced by a variety of ethnographic observations, Kathleen Warden Ferrara explores the skillful and creative uses of language in the complicated speech event of psychotherapy. Shedding light on discoursepractices such as retellings of personal experience narrative, jointly constructed sentences and metaphorical extensions, and strategic uses of repetition, the study emphasizes the interactive nature of all discourse and shows how language is mutually constructed as people interweave pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives.

LC Classification NumberRC489.P73F47 1994