Overview

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.

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Author:   Luke Collins
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138814400

ISBN 10:   1138814407
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   26 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 Defining empowerment and finding evidence of it in language Chapter 2 Assessing interventions for families of hearing impaired children Chapter 3 Assessing the VIG intervention for evidence of empowerment Chapter 4 Observations: Indicators of empowerment from the VIG intervention Chapter 5 Further application of the empowerment model Chapter 6 Discussion and concluding remarks Appendices Index

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Luke Collins is a researcher with the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) at the University of Nottingham.

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