"Analysis of language and discourse in social sciences has become increasingly popular over the past thirty years. Only very recently has it been applied to the study of social work, despite the fact that communication and language are central to social work practice. This book looks at how social workers, their clients and other professionals categorise and manage the problems of social work in ways which are rendered understandable, a ..."
"The contributors to this volume, drawn from different parts of the world (Australia, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA), share the view that interpretation in the mediated sense is more ..."
"This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies. Each chapter is an original contribution which has been specifically commissioned for this book, and together they document the wide range of concerns and techniques which characterise the discipline at the turn of the century.Discourse and Social Life is concerned with a variety of different types of data - ..."
"The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The boo ..."
Interpreter Mediated Healthcare Consultations (Studies in Communication on Organisations and Professions) by SrikantSarangi Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Equinox Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-84553-903-0, ISBN: 1-84553-903-6
"Healthcare delivery, especially in the primary care sector, is increasingly becoming multicultural and multilingual in character. This global reality manifests itself as communicative challenges in interpreter-mediated consultations, involving professional as well as family members in the role of interpreters. The contributors to this volume, drawn from different parts of the world (Australia, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, South Afri ..."
Genetic Testing(1st Edition) Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame (Genetics and Society) by Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Angus Clarke, SrikantSarangi Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-47443-6, ISBN: 0-415-47443-4
"Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as genetic professionals. This book explores the ways in which genetic testing generates not only probabilities of potential future ..."
"Language, Bureaucracy and Social Control explores the varying inter-relationships between language, forms of bureaucratic organisation and social control. The text provides a detailed examination of the discursive dimensions of some of the key techniques of modern power: the 'productive' surveillance practices of administrative and public service institutions. Special attention is paid to recent developments within the state domain and ..."
"Language Acquisition and Language Socialization brings together well-known scholars in two relatively distinct fields - language acquisition and language socialization - and from a variety of orientations within applied linguistics (psycholinguistics, socioloinguistics, anthropological linguistics, educational linguistics) to describe language development from a relational perspective. The notion of ecology offer a convenient metaphor f ..."
"This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies. Each chapter is an original contribution which has been specifically commissioned for this book, and together they document the wide range of concerns and techniques which characterise the discipline at the turn of the century.Discourse and Social Life is concerned with a variety of different types of data - ..."
Genetic Testing(1st Edition) Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame (Genetics and Society) by Michael Arribas-Ayllon, SrikantSarangi, Angus Clarke Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-01996-6, ISBN: 1-138-01996-8
"Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as genetic professionals. This book explores the ways in which genetic testing generates not only probabilities of potential future ..."
"Genre theory in the past few years has contributed immensely to our understanding of the way discourse is used in academic, professional and institutional contexts. However, its development has been constrained by the nature and design of its applications, which have invariably focused on language teaching and learning, or communication training and consultation. This has led to the use of simplified and idealised genres. In contrast to ..."
Team Talk Decision-making Across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care by Per Linell, SrikantSarangi Pasta Dura, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Equinox ISBN-13: 978-1-84553-904-7, ISBN: 1-84553-904-4
"Decision-making in institutional/professional settings has remained an established theme for social science and communication researchers. In contemporary western societies, the conditions of decision making are rapidly changing with the foregrounding of division of professional labour and distributed expertise against the backdrop of a client-centred ideology that legitimises shared decision-making. Increasingly, in health and social c ..."
"The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The boo ..."
"Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi, Christopher N. Candlin ... The layperson is
given the status of an expert, very much in the manner suggested by Garfinkel (
1967: 10) of his Suicide Prevention Centre staff and others: . . . for Suicide
Prevention Centre staff, for coders, for jurors, the rational properties of their
practical actions somehow consist in the concerted work of making evidence from
fragments – from codified' but essen ..."
"Analysis of language and discourse in social sciences has become increasingly popular over the past thirty years. Only very recently has it been applied to the study of social work, despite the fact that communication and language are central to social work practice. This book looks at how social workers, their clients and other professionals categorise and manage the problems of social work in ways which are rendered understandable, ac ..."
Applied Linguistics and Communities of Practice Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Cardiff University, ... (British Studies in Applied Linguistics) by SrikantSarangi Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Continuum Intl Pub Group ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-7171-0, ISBN: 0-8264-7171-4
Team Talk Decision-making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care (Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions) by SrikantSarangi, Per Linell Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Equinox Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84553-905-4, ISBN: 1-84553-905-2
"Decision-making in institutional/professional settings has remained an established theme for social science and communication researchers. In contemporary western societies, the conditions of decision making are rapidly changing with the foregrounding of division of professional labour and distributed expertise against the backdrop of a client-centred ideology that legitimises shared decision-making. Increasingly, in health and s ..."
"Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns, and how an analysis of these to produce a social scientific account of applied linguistics helps to explain the interaction between social structures, human agents and language. Foreword • Introduction • Making connections: ..."