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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
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.