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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 behaviour, so that therapy becomes a process of learning to retell one's life story.

Every chapter contains either actual narratives from clients or therapist/client interviews with thorough linguistic and sociolinguistic analyses of these speech activities. The therapist is shown how to listen and what to listen for in the client's speech, as well as what kinds of questions to ask.



Table of Contents
Preface.

Linguistics.

Pragmatics.

Doing Therapy.

Proverbs, Metaphors, Idioms and Therapy.

Schizophrenia and Therapy.

Telling a Life.

Bibliography.

Index.

Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy: A

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 1 November 1999
      ISBN-13 9781861560254
      978-1861560254
      ISBN-10 1861560257
      Also in:
      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Grammar, syntax and morphology Language: reference and general Psychotherapy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 behaviour, so that therapy becomes a process of learning to retell one's life story.

      Every chapter contains either actual narratives from clients or therapist/client interviews with thorough linguistic and sociolinguistic analyses of these speech activities. The therapist is shown how to listen and what to listen for in the client's speech, as well as what kinds of questions to ask.



      Table of Contents
      Preface.

      Linguistics.

      Pragmatics.

      Doing Therapy.

      Proverbs, Metaphors, Idioms and Therapy.

      Schizophrenia and Therapy.

      Telling a Life.

      Bibliography.

      Index.

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