Reconstructing Institutions - Language Use in Academic Counseling Encounters

This book examines the use of language in face-to-face encounters between some university students and their academic counselors. It describes the role language plays in shaping institutional role identities, in accomplishing institutional tasks and activities, and in constituting associated knowledge and affective stances. It documents how the academic counselors and student clients do what they do through grammatical and interactional details. Put more generally, it investigates how certain aspects of institutional life are lived linguistically. Methodologically, this book focuses on specific lexicogrammatical forms, turns, sequences, and narrative episodes which constitute the seemingly routine, ordinary life of academic counseling. It relies on detailed transcripts from audio and video recordings of naturally occurring academic counseling activities, knowledge gained from participant observation, field notes and interview data to advance a tripartite approach to researching institutional discourse.

List of contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Doing Academic Counseling
Understanding Academic Counseling
Constructing Institutional Identities
Narrativizing Counseling Problems
Modals, Stances, and Voices. Can: The Symbiosis of Choices and Control
Withholding Academic Advice
Concluding Remarks
Appendices
References
Author Index
Subject Index

About the author

AGNES WEIYUN HE is Research Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Product details

• Authors: Agnes Weiyun He, He Agnes Weiyun
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.1999
• EAN: 9781567504194
• ISBN: 978-1-56750-419-4
• No. of pages: 146
• Weight: 198 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Business & management, Educational psychology, Communication Studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Current Events and Issues: Education