This volume strengthens the case for analysing discourse from the
point of view of discourse participants' accountability and
responsibility. It adds an important and largely neglected strand
to research in discourse studies and pragmatics by analysing the
expression and attribution of responsibility, particularly in
professional discourse. Debates on social and professional
responsibility have proliferated in recent years both in the public
sphere (e.g. in connection with corporate responsibility reports)
and in more local practices (e.g. as manifested in the publication
of in-house codes of conduct). However, there is little academic
research on professional discourse which systematically addresses
the ways in which responsibility relations are construed in
language use. This volume contains a number of case studies
focusing on different professional settings: media, health care and
social work. The types of data examined range from globally
available mass-consumed discourse (such as news agency dispatches)
to local and essentially private face-to-face encounters (such as
counselling sessions).The studies examine different linguistic
features (such as reported speech in written texts and
backchannelling in spoken encounters) and different types of
meanings (such as agency and causality). The studies draw on
different methodological approaches (mainly pragmatics,
conversation analysis and (critical) discourse analysis). A common
thread running through the contributions is that responsibility is
not a stable quality of people or institutions, but a dynamic and
variable resource that language users negotiate in interaction.
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