Language Corpus and Empowerment

<p><em>Language Corpus and Empowerment</em> applies a novel corpus-driven approach to the exploration of the concept of empowerment in healthcare. The book proposes an innovative corpus-based methodology for finding evidence of empowerment in language use using data from a video intervention delivered to families of deaf children as well as assessing the effects of the intervention on the family. </p><p><i>Language Corpus and Empowerment </i></p><ul> <li>provides a working definition of empowerment which incorporates concepts from linguistics and learning theory;</li> <li>uses corpus analysis to provide evidence of how video interventions can transform people’s perspectives;</li> <li>examines this new methodology as a potential tool for analysing conversational data longitudinally and at a case-by-case level;</li> <li>demonstrates how a corpus-based methodological approach can be applied in conjunction with other language-based approaches such as discourse analysis and conversation analysis to explore the ways in which complex social processes occur in interaction;</li> <li>makes a valuable development in the assessment of the impact of healthcare interventions and the language of empowerment.</li> </ul><p>Insightful and ground-breaking <i>Language Corpus and Empowerment</i> is essential reading for anyone undertaking research within corpus linguistics.</p>