In:Advice in Discourse
Edited by Holger Limberg and Miriam A. Locher
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 221] 2012
► pp. v–viii
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction to advice in discourse
Part I. Advice in academic, educational and training settings
Chapter 2. Question-prefaced advice in feedback sequences of Finnish academic supervisions
Chapter 3. ‘You could make this clearer’: Teachers’ advice on ESL academic writing
Chapter 4. ‘It wouldn’t hurt if you had your child evaluated’: Advice to mothers in responses to vignettes from a US teaching context
Chapter 5. The advising sequence and its preference structures in graduate peer tutoring at an American university
Chapter 6. ‘Yes that’s a good idea’: Peer advice in academic discourse at a UK university
Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace
Part II. Advice in medical and health-related settings
Chapter 8. Advice giving – terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitors
Chapter 9. ‘You may know better than I do’: Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital
Chapter 10. Requesting and receiving advice on the telephone: An analysis of telephone helplines in Australia
Chapter 11. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspects
Part III. Advice in computer-mediated settings
Chapter 12. Online advice in Japanese: Giving advice in an Internet discussion forum
Chapter 13. Online peer-to-peer advice in Spanish Yahoo!Respuestas
Part IV. Cross-cultural and corpus linguistic perspectives on advice
Chapter 14. ‘Advice’ in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspective
Chapter 15. ‘Well it’s not for me to advise you, of course...’: Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of English
Contributors
Subject index
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