Labov William, Fanshel David. Therapeutic Discourse. Psychotherapy as Conversation

Academic Press, 1977. — 408 p. — ISBN 9780124320505, 0124320503.Therapeutic Discourse presents a linguistic microanalysis of communicative exchanges and strategies of intervention in a psychotherapeutic interview. At the same time, it makes a major contribution to a general theory of discourse. Various aspects of discourse organization as well as different methods for their investigation are integrated into a comprehensive framework for discourse analysis which is likely to be received as a paradigmatic formulation of a new step in the development of linguistic research.