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10. Theoretical vocabularies and moral negotiation in child welfare: The saga of Evie and Seb

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Introduction to the handbook series Linguistics for problem solving V
  3. Contents XVII
  4. Part I
  5. Professional and organisational practice: A discourse/communication perspective 3
  6. Part II
  7. 1. Evidence and inference in macro-level and micro-level healthcare studies 61
  8. 2. Applied linguistics in the legal arena 83
  9. 3. Communication is not neutral: “Worldview” and the science of organizational communication 103
  10. Part III
  11. 4. Alignments and facework in paediatric visits: Toward a social choreography of multiparty talk 121
  12. 5. Peering inside the black box: Lay and professional reasoning surrounding patient claims of adverse drug effects 143
  13. 6. Institutional bodies and social selves: The discourse of medical examinations in hospital settings 173
  14. 7. Uncomfortable moments in speech-language therapy discourse 193
  15. 8. Speaking for another: Ethics-in-interaction in medical encounters 215
  16. 9. Psychological and sociomoral frames in genetic counselling for predictive testing 235
  17. 10. Theoretical vocabularies and moral negotiation in child welfare: The saga of Evie and Seb 259
  18. 11. Interrogation and evidence: Questioning sequences in courtroom discourse and police interviews 277
  19. 12. Judging by what you’re saying: Judges’ questioning of lawyers as interactive interpretation 299
  20. 13. Professional discourses in contact: Interpreters in the legal and medical settings 319
  21. 14. Enabling bids: Occupational practice and “multi-modal” interaction in auctions of fine art and antiques 341
  22. 15. Argumentation across Web-based organizational discourses: The case of climate change 363
  23. 16. E-mail messaging in the corporate sector: Tensions between technological affordances and rapport management 387
  24. 17. Gatekeeping discourse in employment interviews 407
  25. 18. The gatekeeping encounter as a social form and as a site for face work 433
  26. Part IV
  27. 19. Appreciating the power of narratives in healthcare: A tool for understanding organizational complexity and values 457
  28. 20. Family support and home visiting: Understanding communication, “good practice” and interactional skills 481
  29. 21. Crossing the boundary between finance and law: The collaborative problematisation of professional learning in a postgraduate classroom 499
  30. 22. Analytic challenges in studying professional learning 519
  31. 23. Applying linguistic research to real world problems: The social meaning of talk in workplace interaction 533
  32. 24. Changes in professional identity: Nursing roles and practices 551
  33. 25. Crossing the practitioner-researcher boundary: Working with another discipline to examine one’s practice 571
  34. 26. The linguist in the witness box 591
  35. Biographical notes 609
  36. Subject index 619
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