A Narrative Approach to Achieving Productive Dialogue and Change
Manging Conflict in a Negotiated World provides a step-by-step approach to developing students' skills in narrating, interpreting, and exploring possibilities for changing their conflict experiences and behaviour. Peter Kellett and Diana Dalton draw on their own extensive class-tested material to help the reader: * understand the elements of ......
This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of analytical concepts and techniques, described in basic, ......
It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly. `Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge ......
This book employs a discourse analytical approach to the study of deception. It focuses on the deceptive messages themselves - how language is used to deceive others and what kinds of linguistic devices are used. The author develops a theory of deception based on his study of debates and interviews of American and British politicians.
Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. The author highlights the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.'
By identifying some of the distinctive commu nication practices in Chinese culture, and interpreting the dynamics, the authors offer a realistic and clear illustrati on of the specific characteristics of Chinese communication. '
The concept of "identity" attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debate. Theory abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture. However, there is less literature on how such identity issues appear in the fine grain of everyday life. This text gathers together, in a collection of ......
The concept of "identity" attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debate. Theory abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture. However, there is less literature on how such identity issues appear in the fine grain of everyday life. This text gathers together, in a collection of ......
Plunging into the verbal quagmire of official language used by bureaucrats in both government and business, the author develops new techniques based on linguistic principles to improve their communication with the public. He presents nine case studies that reveal representative problems with bureaucratic language.
