Advice in Discourse
Editors
This multi-faceted collection of research papers on Advice in Discourse focuses on advisory practices in different contexts. Data is drawn from academic, educational and training settings, health-related practices, and computer-mediated communication. The languages involved are Cantonese, English, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. The chapters treat professional and institutional practices, practices that contain peer interaction within an institutional framework, and non-institutional peer interaction, as well as solicited and non-solicited advice in written and spoken form. The work reported on clearly demonstrates the complexity of the advisory activity, which needs to be studied in its cultural framework and interactional context. The richness and diversity of this practice is studied from different methodological angles, covering qualitative and quantitative as well as theoretical and empirical analyses. The volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the research field, thought-provoking theoretical discussions and extensive references for future research. It is essential for linguists, advice-practitioners and for those who want to learn more about the discourse of advice.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 221] 2012. ix, 376 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 May 2012
Published online on 4 May 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. ix–x
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Chapter 1. Introduction to advice in discourseMiriam A. Locher and Holger Limberg | pp. 1–28
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Part I. Advice in academic, educational and training settings
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Chapter 2. Question-prefaced advice in feedback sequences of Finnish academic supervisionsSanna Vehviläinen | pp. 31–52
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Chapter 3. ‘You could make this clearer’: Teachers’ advice on ESL academic writingKen Hyland and Fiona Hyland | pp. 53–72
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Chapter 4. ‘It wouldn’t hurt if you had your child evaluated’: Advice to mothers in responses to vignettes from a US teaching contextAndrea DeCapua and Joan Findlay Dunham | pp. 73–96
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Chapter 5. The advising sequence and its preference structures in graduate peer tutoring at an American universityHansun Zhang Waring | pp. 97–118
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Chapter 6. ‘Yes that’s a good idea’: Peer advice in academic discourse at a UK universityJo Angouri | pp. 119–144
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Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplaceBernadette Vine, Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra | pp. 145–166
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Part II. Advice in medical and health-related settings
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Chapter 8. Advice giving – terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitorsJohn Heritage and Anna Lindström | pp. 169–194
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Chapter 9. ‘You may know better than I do’: Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospitalOlga Zayts-Spence and Stephanie Schnurr | pp. 195–212
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Chapter 10. Requesting and receiving advice on the telephone: An analysis of telephone helplines in AustraliaMichael Emmison and Alan Firth | pp. 213–232
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Chapter 11. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspectsChristopher Pudlinski | pp. 233–252
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Part III. Advice in computer-mediated settings
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Chapter 12. Online advice in Japanese: Giving advice in an Internet discussion forumPhillip R. Morrow | pp. 255–280
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Chapter 13. Online peer-to-peer advice in Spanish Yahoo!RespuestasMaría Elena Placencia | pp. 281–306
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Part IV. Cross-cultural and corpus linguistic perspectives on advice
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Chapter 14. ‘Advice’ in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspectiveAnna Wierzbicka | pp. 309–332
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Chapter 15. ‘Well it’s not for me to advise you, of course...’: Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of EnglishCatherine Diederich and Nicole Höhn | pp. 333–358
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Contributors | pp. 359–366
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Subject index | pp. 367–372
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Author index | pp. 373–376
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Advice in Discourse is a groundbreaking book that demonstrates the importance of advice giving and receiving in our modern world, and it provides a broad range of approaches to its study. A must-read not only for discourse analysts, sociolinguists and speech act theorists but also for practitioners in all kinds of advisory contexts themselves.”
Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich
“Each paper in this collection can be considered as a practical example to spotlight one specific communicative act and to investigate it in specific fields of occurrence. Therefore, it can be used as a comprehensive guidance book for discourse analysts and sociolinguists. The richness and diversity of the research presented in this book can be seen from the range of languages that it involves, such as English, Cantonese, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. As well, the qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in studying advice in discourse and extensive references for future research included are invaluable for both advanced learners and beginners of discourse analysis.”
Fang Wang, University of Birmingham, UK, in Discourse Studies 16.3.2014
“The collection makes valuable contributions on a number of issues [...]. The book unveils the enormous linguistic and relational complexity of advice-giving in a variety of settings and cultures, and is a fascinating reading for those interested in advising practices from a linguistic, communicative, ethical, pragmatic, and socio-cultural perspective.”
Ivelina Tchizmarova, Simon Fraser University, in Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 55.3.2014
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General