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

    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.

    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.