This book examines the use of language in face-to-face encounters between some university students and their academic counselors. It describes the role language plays in shaping institutional role identities, in accomplishing institutional tasks and activities, and in constituting associated knowledge and affective stances. It documents how the academic counselors and student clients do what they do through grammatical and interactional details. Put more generally, it investigates how certain aspects of institutional life are lived linguistically. Methodologically, this book focuses on specific lexicogrammatical forms, turns, sequences, and narrative episodes which constitute the seemingly routine, ordinary life of academic counseling. It relies on detailed transcripts from audio and video recordings of naturally occurring academic counseling activities, knowledge gained from participant observation, field notes and interview data to advance a tripartite approach to researching institutional discourse.

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It relies on detailed transcripts from audio and video recordings of naturally occurring academic counseling activities, knowledge gained from participant observation, field notes and interview data to advance a tripartite approach to researching institutional discourse.
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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Doing Academic Counseling
Understanding Academic Counseling
Constructing Institutional Identities
Narrativizing Counseling Problems
Modals, Stances, and Voices. Can: The Symbiosis of Choices and Control
Withholding Academic Advice
Concluding Remarks
Appendices
References
Author Index
Subject Index

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The volumes presented in this series provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines that share a mutual interest in discourse -- be it prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, spoken versus written discourse, or other related topics. The problems posed by multi-sentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, while not always unique to discourse, are still sufficiently distinct as to benefit from the organized model of scientific interaction made possible by this series. Scholars working in the discourse area from the perspective of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, ethnomethodology and the sociology of language, educational psychology (e.g., teacher/student interaction), the philosophy of language, computational linguistics, and related sub-areas are invited to submit manuscripts of monograph or book length. Edited collections of original papers resulting from conferences will also be considered.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781567504187
Publisert
1999-01-27
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
134

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

AGNES WEIYUN HE is Research Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at State University of New York, Stony Brook.