Reconstructing Institutions: Language Use in Academic Counseling Encounters

by Agnes Weiyun He

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567504191
• ISBN13: 9781567504194
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"