Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform our experiences of health and healing, illness and disease, life and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the individual, community, and societal levels is not only linked to these domains of human life, but is intimately interwoven with the ever present and multifaceted frame of culture, which is often where meaning lies, and is a key factor that creates or inhibits efficacy.
The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology appeals to all those interested in music, medicine, and culture, and represents a new stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and practitioners who embrace and incorporate knowledge from a diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition, spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music, spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative, complementary, and alternative models; is rooted in new physics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics, medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the healing arts.
The book is more than the first collected volume to establish the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and express its broad potential; it is also an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts. The authors encourage the development of this new paradigm through an openness to and engagement of knowledge from diverse research areas and domains of human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life, prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing.

Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform our experiences of health and healing, illness and disease, life and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the individual, community, and societal levels is not only linked to these domains of human life, but is intimately interwoven with the ever present and multifaceted frame of culture, which is often where meaning lies, and is a key factor that creates or inhibits efficacy.
l The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology appeals to all those interested in music, medicine, and culture, and represents a new stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and practitioners who embrace and incorporate knowledge from a diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition, spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music, spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative, complementary, and alternative models; is rooted in new physics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics, medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the healing arts.
The book is more than the first collected volume to establish the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and express its broad potential; it is also an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts. The authors encourage the development of this new paradigm through an openness to and engagement ofknowledge from diverse research areas and domains of human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life, prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing.

Peer-Gesprachen in der Schule wird von Erwachsenen gemeinhin wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Was aus Perspektive mancher Erwachsener wie belangloser Small-Talk unter Jugendlichen erscheint, erweist sich aus Sicht der Gesprachsforschung als hoch funktional im Schulalltag. Der Band prasentiert analytische Einblicke in Gesprachsaufnahmen von Schulerinnen und Schulern im Schulalltag verschiedener Schulformen und Altersstufen. Das Buch liefert neue Erkenntnisse uber das Gesprachsverhalten, Positionierungsaktivitaten, Themenfelder sowie jugend- und institutionstypische Ausdrucksweisen der untersuchten Gesprache.

Der Band prasentiert die Gesamtergebnisse des Wuppertaler DFG-Forschungsprojekts zu sprachlicher Hoeflichkeit bei Jugendlichen an der Schnittstelle von linguistischer Hoeflichkeits- und Jugendsprachforschung. Anhand von Tonaufzeichnungen in Unterrichts- und Pausensituationen und dem Einsatz von Frageboegen bei 1200 Jugendlichen und 170 Lehrkraften koennen ausgewahlte Gebrauchs- und Verstandnisweisen sprachlicher Hoeflichkeit und Unhoeflichkeit bei Jugendlichen im Schulalter analysiert werden. Das Buch liefert insbesondere neue Erkenntnisse uber Erscheinungsweisen jugendtypischer Hoeflichkeit und uber soziolinguistische Differenzen zwischen Geschlechtern, Altersstufen und Schultypen sowie Adressatendifferenzierungen.

Empirische und methodische Entscheidungen stellen fur die Sprachforschung anhaltende Herausforderungen dar, die im Hinblick auf das jeweilige Erkenntnisinteresse abzuwagen sind. Das Buch tragt neben verschiedenen methodischen Ansatzen inhaltliche Befunde aus Gesprachsforschung, Medienlinguistik und Variationslinguistik zusammen, die empirisch gestutzte Einblicke in Interaktions- und Sprechweisen Jugendlicher ermoeglichen. Es werden Einblicke in vielfaltige Sprach- bzw. Kommunikationskompetenzen der Jugendlichen in den Kontexten Schule, Freizeit, Mehrsprachigkeit und Medien vermittelt, sei es argumentativ, narrativ oder reflexiv sowie im Hinblick auf Adressatenorientierungen.