Language, Corpus and Empowerment: Applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses (Paperback)

Luke Collins (author)

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Paperback 262 Pages / Published: 12/12/2019

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Synopsis

Language, Corpus and Empowerment applies a novel corpus-driven approach to the exploration of the concept of empowerment in healthcare. The book proposes an innovative corpus-based methodology for finding evidence of empowerment in language use, using data from a video intervention delivered to families of deaf children, as well as assessing the effects of the intervention on the family.

Language, Corpus and Empowerment

provides a working definition of empowerment which incorporates concepts from linguistics and learning theory;

uses corpus analysis to provide evidence of how video interventions can transform people's perspectives;

examines this new methodology as a potential tool for analysing conversational data longitudinally and at a case-by-case level;

demonstrates how a corpus-based methodological approach can be applied in conjunction with other language-based approaches, such as discourse analysis and conversation analysis, to explore the ways in which complex social processes occur in interaction;

makes a valuable development in the assessment of the impact of healthcare interventions and the language of empowerment.

Insightful and ground-breaking, Language, Corpus and Empowerment is essential reading for anyone undertaking research within corpus linguistics.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780367870911
Number of pages: 262
Weight: 454 g
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm