Language, corpus and empowerment : applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses - Collins, Luke Curtis (New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)
1. Defining empowerment and finding evidence of it in language -- 2. Assessing interventions for families of hearing impaired children -- 3. Assessing the VIG intervention for evidence of empowerment -- 4. Observations : indicators of empowerment from the VIG intervention -- 5. Further application of the empowerment model
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Corpora (Linguistics); Education of Hearing Disabled; Patient education -- Social aspects; Patient Participation -- Methods; Professional-Patient Relations