Therapeutic Ways with Words

Therapeutic Ways with Words

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Ferrara, Kathleen W.
Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780195359404
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Therapeutic Ways with Words provides a unique glimpse into language use in psychotherapy, an important speech event which has previously been shrouded in mystery. This important book shows how both clients and therapists accomplish their aims through language, which, paradoxically, is both the method of diagnosis and the medium of treatment in this cultural practice. With a discourse analysis of tape recordings and transcripts of actual psychotherapy sessions enhanced by a variety of ethnographic observations, Kathleen Warden Ferrara explores the skillful and creative uses of language in the complicated speech event of psychotherapy. Shedding light on discourse practices such as retellings of personal experience narrative, jointly constructed sentences and metaphorical extensions, and strategic uses of repetition, the study emphasizes the interactive nature of all discourse and shows how language is mutually constructed as people interweave pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives.
EAN 9780195359404
ISBN 0195359402
Binding Ebook
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date April 7, 1994
Language English
Country United States
Authors Ferrara, Kathleen W.
Series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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