Troubled Talk
Subtitle: Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse (Language, Power, and Social Process) (Language, Power, and Social Process)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9783110184167
Subjects: Semantics (meaning); Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Semantics; Narration (Rhetoric); Discourse analysis, Narrative; Discourse analysis; Psychological aspects
First sentence: At the outset of the twenty-first century, troubled selves' wander about a contemporary2 landscape full of actual and virtual institutional sites3 that entice them to pay a visit in order to make sense of their experience.