New Book: MUNTIGL

[Christopher Bell]

John Benjamins Publishing Company is pleased to announce the publication of 
the following new book in the field of Discourse Studies:

Narrative Counselling
Social and Linguistic Processes of Change

Peter Muntigl
University of Salzburg

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 11
2004. x, 347 pp.

U.S. and Canada: Cloth: 1 58811 534 8 / USD 138.00
Everywhere else: Cloth:  90 272 2701 2 / EUR 115.00


What actually happens in counselling interactions?

How does counselling bring about change?

How do clients end up producing new and alternative stories of their lives 
and relationships?

By addressing these questions and others, Peter Muntigl explores the 
narrative counselling process in the context where it is enacted: the 
unfolding conversation between counsellor and clients. Through a 
transdisciplinary approach that combines conversation analysis and systemic 
functional linguistic theory, Muntigl demonstrates how language is used in 
couples counselling, how language use changes over the course of 
counselling, and how this process provides clients with new linguistic 
resources that help them change their social relationships.

This book will be a valuable resource not only for linguists and discourse 
analysts, but also for researchers and practitioners in the fields of 
counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, and medicine.


Table of contents

Acknowledgements ix
1. Modeling semiotic change in narrative couselling 1–20
2. Conversation Analysis 21–46
3. Systemic functional linguistics 47–105
4. Logogenesis 107–132
5. Reformulations as local transformations 133–178
6. Problem construction 179–232
7. Problem effacement 233–267
8. Clients' semiotic repertoires 269–306
9. Phylogenesis and concluding remarks 307–332
Notes 333
References 335–342
Index 343–346


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