Language, Corpus and Empowerment

Applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses
 
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Short description:

Language, Corpus and Empowerment applies a novel corpus-driven approach to the exploration of the concept of empowerment in healthcare. Using data from a video intervention delivered to families of deaf children, the author proposes a method for finding evidence of empowerment in language use, as well as assessing the effects of the int

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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.



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.

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