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Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings
By Jan-Ola Ostman (editor) and Anna Solin (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Equinox
Publication date September 30, 2016
Pages 310
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781845539146
ISBN-10 1845539141
Dimensions 1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 0.62 lbs.
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $100.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The purpose of the volume is to strengthen the case for analysing discourse from the point of view of discourse participants' accountability and responsibility. The volume adds an important and largely neglected strand to research in discourse studies and pragmatics by analysing the expression and attribution of responsibility. The volume focuses in particular on responsibility 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.



The book 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 (e.g. 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.

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With Jan-Ola Ostman (other contributor) | from Equinox (September 30, 2016)
9781845539146 | details & prices | 310 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.62 lbs | List price $100.00
About: The purpose of the volume is to strengthen the case for analysing discourse from the point of view of discourse participants' accountability and responsibility.
Paperback
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With Jan-Ola Ostman (other contributor) | from Equinox (February 1, 2016)
9781845539153 | details & prices | 310 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $29.95
About: The purpose of the volume is to strengthen the case for analysing discourse from the point of view of discourse participants' accountability and responsibility.

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