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Publication details [#12661]

Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, Per Linell and Bengt Nordberg. 1997. The Construction of Professional discourse. (Language in Social Life). Longman. xiv + 328 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
communication | discourse, production of | professional language | social constructivism | social context
ISBN
0-582-25941-X

Annotation

This volume analyzes varieties of professional discourse and their historical development such as medical, legal, scientific, social welfare and educational discourse from the perspective of social constructionism.

Articles in this volume

Danet, Brenda. Speech, writing and performativity: an evolutionary view of the history of constitutive ritual. 13–41
Bazerman, Charles. Performatives constituting values: the case of patents. 42–53
Trosborg, Anna. Contracts as social action. 54–75
Valle, Ellen. A scientific community and its texts: a historical discourse study. 76–98
Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise. On the sociohistorical construction of scientific discourse. 99–126
Anderson, Lloyd B. Parameters of institutional discourse. 127–150
Linde, Charlotte. Evaluation as linguistic structure and social practice. 151–172
Hall, Christopher, Srikant Sarangi and Stefaan Slembrouck. Moral construction in social work discourse. 165–291
Wodak, Ruth. Critical discourse analysis and the study of doctor-patient interaction. 173–200
Candlin, Christopher N. and Yon Maley. Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in the discourse of alternative dispute resolution. 201–222
Mischler, Elliot G. The interactional construction of narratives in medical and life-history interviews. 223–244
Hydén, Lars-Christer. The institutional narrative as drama. 245–264
Goodwin, Charles and Marjorie Harness Goodwin. Contested vision: the discursive constitution of Rodney King. 292–316

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He, Agnes Weiyun. 1998. Review of $The Construction of Professional discourse.