1st Edition
Language, Corpus and Empowerment Applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses
By Luke Collins
Copyright 2015
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
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
Biography
Luke Collins is a researcher with the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) at the University of Nottingham.
