Language guides. An exercise in futility

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dc.abstract.enBoth psychology and medicine insist on the ‘right’ way to speak and increasingly attempt to control the language both clinicians and other stakeholders use. Such guides range from article suggestions of replacing certain words to more comprehensive and formal guides of how to communicate (e.g. the guide of the BPS’ Clinical Psychology Division’s Guidelines on Language). In this chapter we explore constructions of language and clinical communication in clinical language guides. Methodologically, our study is anchored in the constructionist view of discourse, taking a qualitative critical discourse studies perspective on the data. Our argument is twofold. First, we argue that the guides represent language and linguistic communication as outside any context, either situational or societal. Second, as the guides focus solely on lexical material, ignoring the grammatical form, they ignore a significant aspect of the communicative interaction. Analysing interactional clinical data, we argue against such assumptions. We end the chapter by making a point of the futility of clinical language guides, stressing the negotiability of clinical communication.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorGalasiński, Dariusz
dc.contributor.authorZiółkowska, Justyna
dc.contributor.editorDarics, Erika
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-17T11:11:32Z
dc.date.available2025-11-17T11:11:32Z
dc.date.created2022-07-28
dc.date.issued2022-07-28
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>The crucial role language plays in constituting our reality, and in achieving political influence and control, has long been known in scholarship. However, appreciation of the role of language in understanding our social realities and power relations has not been fully translated to education or even to research beyond linguistically focussed academic strands. Bringing together well-established scholars from a range of disciplines, this book demonstrates why language awareness and discourse consciousness should be considered a key skill in business and professional life, and looks closely at language in areas such as entrepreneurship, leadership, human resource management, medical, financial, or business communication, ecology, media, and politics. The authors demonstrate how the understanding of the minutiae of language use in a variety of professional contexts leads to knowledge that will empower future generations of professionals and enable them to develop a self-reflexive, critical, and more ethical practice.</jats:p>
dc.description.physical83-100
dc.description.sdgGoodHealthAndWellBeing
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781108696159.008
dc.identifier.eisbn978-1-108-69615-9
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-108-48449-7
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-108-73596-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2004
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/language-awareness-in-business-and-the-professions/language-guides/92948DE19F6F7E16725E5E19FA0C435B
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.publisher.ministerialCambridge University Press
dc.relation.bookLanguage awareness in business and the professions
dc.relation.pages240
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.rights.explanationNie pozwala na to umowa licencyna z wydawcą.
dc.rights.questionNo_rights
dc.subject.enclinical communication
dc.subject.enmedical language guides
dc.subject.enhealthcare communication
dc.subject.enlanguage ideology
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titleLanguage guides. An exercise in futility
dc.typeMonographyChapter
dspace.entity.typeBook