none 10.1075/pbns.252 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 72586917 1612122 1420619 202412111138000004 10.1075 2024-12-11T10:46:36Z 2014-12-05T09:01:00Z 13 0922-842X 10.1075/pbns https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Eva-Maria Graf Klagenfurt University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6498-8105 Marlene Sator Gesundheit Österreich GmbH Thomas Spranz-Fogasy IDS Mannheim https://ror.org/00hvwkt50 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2536-468X Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional discourse – by now well established fields in linguistic research – discourses of helping professions represent an innovative concept in its orientation to a common communicative goal: solving patients’ and clients’ physical, psychological, emotional, professional or managerial problems via a particular helping discourse. The book sets out to uncover differences, similarities and interferences in how professionals and those seeking help interactively tackle this communicative goal. In its focus on professional helping contexts and its inter-professional perspective, the current book is a primer, intended to spark off more interdisciplinary and (applied) research on helping discourses, a socio-cultural phenomenon that is of growing importance in our post-modern society. As such, it is of great relevance for discourse researchers and discourse practitioners, caretakers and social scientists of all shades as well as for everybody interested in helping professions. 252 12 18 2014 12 5 2014 9789027256577 9789027269430 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/pbns.252 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027269430 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.252/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027269430.pdf