Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings - Jan-Ola Östman

Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings - Jan-Ola Östman

Chapter 1: The notion of responsibility in discourse studies

Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings - Jan-Ola Östman

Anna Solin [+-]
University of Helsinki
Anna Solin works as senior lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland. She gained her PhD in Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK, in 2001. She currently directs a research project on language regulation in academia, with a particular focus on the shifting norms of English use.
Jan-Ola Östman [+-]
University of Helsinki
Jan-Ola Östman is professor of Scandinavian languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and President of the International Pragmatics Association. In addition to degrees from the Åbo Akademi University in Finland, he has an MA from Reading University, U.K., and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. He has previously worked as professor of English, and professor of General linguistics at the University of Helsinki, and as invited scholar and guest researcher in Antwerp, Brussels, Tromsø, and Freiburg. His research focuses on pragmatics, discourse and the media; constructional approach to language; minority languages, esp. signed languages and immigrant languages; socio-dialectology and socio-onomastics; language contact; and language policy and the sociology of language. He is the co-editor of Handbook of Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and of the book series Constructional Approaches to Language.

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The chapter introduces the volume Discourse and responsibility in professional settings and gives a general overview of different types of responsibility, and thus different manners in which responsibility can be approached: legal vs. moral; individual vs. collective; formal vs. substantive; and sociocultural vs. interpersonal vs. responsibility to self. The chapter further places the notion of responsibility at the heart of discourse studies and distinguishes responsibility from accountability and ethics. The central aim of the volume is to show the importance of analysing discourse from the point of view of discourse participants’ agency, accountability and responsibility and by so doing, add an important dimension to existing strands of research in discourse studies, in pragmatics, and in applied linguistics.

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Solin, Anna ; Östman, Jan-Ola . Chapter 1: The notion of responsibility in discourse studies. Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 3-18 Apr 2016. ISBN 9781845539153. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=26836. Date accessed: 23 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.26836. Apr 2016

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