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

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Luke Collins

Language, Corpus and Empowerment

Applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses

Luke Collins

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Routledge
26 February 2015

linguistics; Audiology & otology

Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics

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.

By: Luke Collins
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781138814400
ISBN 10: 1138814407
Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 26 February 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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