Edited by Claudio Scarvaglieri, Eva-Maria Graf and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping. Its contributions address this core of helping in psychotherapy, coaching, doctor-patient interaction, and digital helping interaction and document and analyze essential… read more
The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching is the first linguistic monograph on executive coaching, a recent, not fully professionalized, yet booming helping professional format in the organizational realm. The book is positioned at the interface between applied linguistic analysis and the activity of… read more
Edited by Eva-Maria Graf, Marlene Sator and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional… read more
This paper discusses opportunities and challenges of a mixed-methods research model building on linguistic and psychological methods, to document, analyze and evaluate questioning sequences as agents of effectiveness in business coaching. It details the disciplinary needs of expansion and… read more
Coaching is a fast-growing learning and development format. While its overall effectiveness is empirically established in psychological research, there is little linguistic research on how particular discursive practices are used in coaching interactions to co-construct such effectiveness. This… read more
While outcome research has convincingly proven that the working alliance is a key success factor in coaching, qualitative process-oriented insights are so far missing. We strive to fill this gap by shifting the focus from ‘the working alliance is crucial’ to ‘how is the working alliance… read more
Our contribution maps the journey towards setting up a transdisciplinary, interprofessional collaboration between coaching practitioners and coaching researchers from the fields of Applied Linguistics and Applied Psychology. The goal of such a project is to build a community of interest around a… read more
This issue of the AILA Review focuses on transdisciplinarity as the key to developing shared languages in and across domains and professional settings. The relationship and collaboration between researchers and practitioners have long been discussed within and across applied sciences and… read more
Feelings-talk is considered an important interaction type in many helping professions as the ‘helping’ element often involves various forms of engagement in emotional work. In this chapter we identify and critically assess the interactional forms and functions of feelings-talk in… read more
This chapter looks at (re-)constructing clients’ knowledge in coaching which represents an endemic interactive feature of this helping profession that aims to solve clients’ business-related concerns by developing concrete solutions tor their problems. The professional norm of enabling help for… read more
Self-reflexivity and self-identity have turned into core projects of modern times. As a result, women and men of different cultural backgrounds increasingly often seek support in therapy and counseling. However, talking through things, being open in relationships and seeking happiness as… read more
