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Publication details [#26260]

Ferrara, Kathleen Warden. 1994. Therapeutic ways with words. (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). Oxford University Press. x + 199 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

consulting | discourse analysis | language use | narrative | therapeutic conversation

Annotation

After a review of the history of US psychotherapy, F. provides an ethnographic description of the therapeutic session as a speech event. In spite of a bias towards the therapist's perspective, the analysis focuses on the interactive nature of the therapeutic discourse.

Reviewed by

Rosenfeld, Elif Tolga. 1995. Review of $Therapeutic ways with words.

Yaeger-Dror, Malcah. 1996. Review of $Therapeutic ways with words.