Linguistics, pragmatics, and psychotherapy : a guide for therapists /
This book discusses current theories in linguistics and sociolinguistics as they relate to therapeutic situations, including uses of metaphor, slogans, and proverbs. It shows how people's empathies or feeling of alienation are displayed by the language they choose to describe or discuss events....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Whurr,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book discusses current theories in linguistics and sociolinguistics as they relate to therapeutic situations, including uses of metaphor, slogans, and proverbs. It shows how people's empathies or feeling of alienation are displayed by the language they choose to describe or discuss events. Dysfunctions as different as depression, drug and alcohol additions, agoraphobia, schizophrenia and bulimia are examined in terms of the language used by clients or patients. It is shown that the way people encode life events influences their self-evaluations, evaluations of others, and their general be. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585279330 9780585279336 9780470699140 0470699140 9786612169984 6612169982 0470059893 9780470059890 |