theraputic discourse

[James Cornish]

Kathleen Ferrara, who is on the faculty of Texas A&M's English Dept.,
has written quite a bit on theraputic discourse. This is just some of
her department listing:

BOOK
                  Therapeutic Ways with Words. 1994. NY and Oxford:
                  Oxford University Press.

             EDITED VOLUME
                  Linguistic Change and Contact: NWAV-XVI. Austin:
                  University of Texas, Department of Linguistics,
Austin,
                  TX. Kathleen Ferrara, Becky Brown, Keith Walters, and
                  John Baugh, (editors). 1988.

             CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
                  "Discursive Construction of Language Incompetence in
                  Therapy," In Social Construction of Language
                  Incompetence, Dana Kovarsky, Madeline Maxwell (eds.)
                  Lawrence Earlbaum. (to appear).
                  "Repetition as Rejoinder in Therapeutic Discourse,"In
                  Repetition in Discourse: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives,
                  Vol. 2, Barbara Johnstone (ed.), (Vol. XLVIII in the
series
                  Advances in Discourse Processes, Roy O. Freedle (ed.)
                  Norwood, N.J.: Ablex., pp. 66-83. 1994.
                  "[Linguistic] Accommodation in Therapy," In Contexts
of
                  Accommodation: Developments in Applied
                  Sociolinguistics, Howard Giles, Nikolas Coupland, and
                  Justine Coupland (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge
                  University Press. (pp. 187-222) 1991.
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James Warren Cornish -  Texas A&M University
English Department/ Discourse Studies
213B Blocker Bldg. M/S 4227
College Station
TX  77840-4337
409-845-3542 ex. 40

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