Date: 25-Sep-2008 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Sprache des Schmerzes - Sprechen über Schmerzen [The Language of Pain – Talking about Pain]: Overlach E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Sprache des Schmerzes - Sprechen über Schmerzen [The Language of Pain – Talking about Pain. A Grammatic, Semantic and
Coversational Analysis of Expressions of Pain in German]
Subtitle: Eine grammatisch-semantische und gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung von
Schmerzausdrücken im Deutschen
Series Title: Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 30
Published: 2008
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Author: Fabian Overlach
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110205480 Pages: 365 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110205480 Pages: 365 Price: U.S. $ 157.00 Comment: For orders placed in North America only.
Abstract:
The study analyses the linguistic means for expressing pain in German. Based on written and oral data, mainly from conversations between doctors and patients, the study analyses the grammatical constructions (e.g. "Ich habe Schmerzen" [I have pain] or "Mein Bein tut weh" [My leg hurts]) and develops the patterns deployed by patients with chronic pain to describe their pain in discourse. This interdisciplinary study is directed towards linguists, medics and non-experts with an interest in language; it combines methods from grammar, semantics and conversational analysis, and its results are read in the context of medical literature.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Semantics