Linda A Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 101389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda A Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Constructing Remorse
Remorse is an important consideration in sentencing, but the process of designating remorse has received little direct research attention. Using discursive psychology, the authors examine sentencing decisions in 74 cases of child sexual assault to identify the practices involved in judges' constructions of remorse. As expected, guilty pleas are used as evidence of remorse and vice versa. However, the judges do a good deal of additional work to su…
Sexual Motives and Sentencing
The motives ascribed to offenders in the sentencing of sexual abuse crimes can be highly contentious. Some critics claim that sexual assaults are acts of power and violence and that reference to sexual motives minimizes violence and the seriousness of the offense. The present study examines 74 Canadian judicial sentencing decisions (1993-1997) involving offenders who had sexually abused children and adolescents. Using discursive social psychology…
Doing Discourse Analysis
PART ONE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Language, Discourse and Discourse Analysis Varieties of Discourse Analysis Example of Discourse Analysis PART TWO: METHOD Discourse and Data Data Collection Preparation for Analysis PART THREE: ANALYSIS Analysis I Strategies of Interpretation Analysis II Patterns and Context Identities in Talk Research Examples PART FOUR: EVALUATING AND REPORTING Warranting in Discourse Analysis Writing the Report
Discourses on Discourse
Tseëlon presents an ambitious analysis of gender display that draws upon historical, empirical, psychoanalytic and cultural studies approaches. WiLkinson and Kitzinger offer discussions of empirical work (e.g. on sexual harassment) and considerations of discourse analysis as theory and method. The works address and exemplify the tensions between language as discourse and as situated utterance, and between relativism and commitment to political ch…
Formulating Rape
Previous psychological research involving women who have been raped is criticized for its focus on psychopathology, its use of traditional methodologies, its limited conception of the person, and its reliance on dichotomous categories. A social constructionist, discourse analytic approach is offered as an alternative. Eight women who had been raped by dates or acquaintances volunteered for open-ended, unstructured interviews. Their accounts had t…
The Analysis of Face Work in Discourse
The Brown-Levinson (1987) theory of politeness has attracted a great deal of attention from a variety of disciplines. However, the lack of systematic methods for assessing discourse in terms of politeness has hampered the evaluation and development of the theory and the comparison of findings from different studies. The authors present a proposal that attempts to address some of the limitations of previous approaches and to extend their applicati…
Reification, "faking," and the Big Five
Reification, "faking," and the Big Five
Forms of address, discourse and aging
Gerontological research on the quality of life
Are the Rules of Address Universal
The authors' basic questions were: Does the alleged universality of R. Brown's Invariant Norm of Address extend to German usage and is the structure of address exchange cross-culturally similar for Chinese, Korean, Greek, and German speakers? Reports were obtained from two age samples of 91 female and male German speakers residing in West Germany of actual address usage received from and sent to 27 categories of interactants. The results supporte…
Talk to Elders
In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation the…
Politeness and Forms of Address
The present paper considers the politeness of forms of address in terms of Brown & Levinson's (1987) theory of politeness. We present a conceptual analysis of the elements of politeness for six kinds of nominal address exchange and of the politeness expected for different categories of social relationship. These theoretical values are then compared to the politeness of address exchanges collected in a series of previous studies. The results of bo…
Life satisfaction among the rural elderly
Needed
Needed
Social Competence and the Rules of Address
Are people able to recognise violations of the rules of address, thus revealing their knowledge of the rules underlying address exchanges? A sample of 128 male and female undergraduates judged 64 scenarios containing systematic violations of four rules drawn from Ervin-Tripp's (1969) model of the American Address System. Strong positive relationships were found between the degree of rule violation and the ability of the respondents to recognise t…
Are the Rules of Address Universal
Our basic questions were: Does the alleged universality of Brown's invariant norm of address (1965) extend to Korean usage, and is the structure of address exchange cross-culturally similar for Korean, Greek, and Chinese speakers? To answer the first question, 73 Korean speakers from both Korea and Canada reported actual address usage received from and sent to 34 categories of interactants. Their answers were coded in terms of three quantitative …
Are the Rules of Address Universal
Our basic question was: Does the alleged universality of Brown's Invariant Norm of Address (1965) extend to Greek usage? 56 Greek speakers forming a diverse sample reported actual address usage received from and sent to 28 categories of interactants. Their answers were coded in terms of three quantitative indices which measure the degree of reciprocity, solidarity, and inequality in dyadic address exchanges. The indices permit the precise compari…
Dissonance, self-perception, and the perception of others
Formulating Rape
Previous psychological research involving women who have been raped is criticized for its focus on psychopathology, its use of traditional methodologies, its limited conception of the person, and its reliance on dichotomous categories. A social constructionist, discourse analytic approach is offered as an alternative. Eight women who had been raped by dates or acquaintances volunteered for open-ended, unstructured interviews. Their accounts had t…
Politeness and Forms of Address
The present paper considers the politeness of forms of address in terms of Brown & Levinson's (1987) theory of politeness. We present a conceptual analysis of the elements of politeness for six kinds of nominal address exchange and of the politeness expected for different categories of social relationship. These theoretical values are then compared to the politeness of address exchanges collected in a series of previous studies. The results of bo…
The Analysis of Face Work in Discourse
The Brown-Levinson (1987) theory of politeness has attracted a great deal of attention from a variety of disciplines. However, the lack of systematic methods for assessing discourse in terms of politeness has hampered the evaluation and development of the theory and the comparison of findings from different studies. The authors present a proposal that attempts to address some of the limitations of previous approaches and to extend their applicati…
Are the Rules of Address Universal
Our basic questions were: Does the alleged universality of Brown's invariant norm of address (1965) extend to Korean usage, and is the structure of address exchange cross-culturally similar for Korean, Greek, and Chinese speakers? To answer the first question, 73 Korean speakers from both Korea and Canada reported actual address usage received from and sent to 34 categories of interactants. Their answers were coded in terms of three quantitative …
Talk to Elders
In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation the…
Are the Rules of Address Universal
Our basic question was: Does the alleged universality of Brown's Invariant Norm of Address (1965) extend to Greek usage? 56 Greek speakers forming a diverse sample reported actual address usage received from and sent to 28 categories of interactants. Their answers were coded in terms of three quantitative indices which measure the degree of reciprocity, solidarity, and inequality in dyadic address exchanges. The indices permit the precise compari…
Social Competence and the Rules of Address
Are people able to recognise violations of the rules of address, thus revealing their knowledge of the rules underlying address exchanges? A sample of 128 male and female undergraduates judged 64 scenarios containing systematic violations of four rules drawn from Ervin-Tripp's (1969) model of the American Address System. Strong positive relationships were found between the degree of rule violation and the ability of the respondents to recognise t…
Life satisfaction among the rural elderly
Forms of address, discourse and aging
Are the Rules of Address Universal
The authors' basic questions were: Does the alleged universality of R. Brown's Invariant Norm of Address extend to German usage and is the structure of address exchange cross-culturally similar for Chinese, Korean, Greek, and German speakers? Reports were obtained from two age samples of 91 female and male German speakers residing in West Germany of actual address usage received from and sent to 27 categories of interactants. The results supporte…
Constructing Remorse
Remorse is an important consideration in sentencing, but the process of designating remorse has received little direct research attention. Using discursive psychology, the authors examine sentencing decisions in 74 cases of child sexual assault to identify the practices involved in judges' constructions of remorse. As expected, guilty pleas are used as evidence of remorse and vice versa. However, the judges do a good deal of additional work to su…
Sexual Motives and Sentencing
The motives ascribed to offenders in the sentencing of sexual abuse crimes can be highly contentious. Some critics claim that sexual assaults are acts of power and violence and that reference to sexual motives minimizes violence and the seriousness of the offense. The present study examines 74 Canadian judicial sentencing decisions (1993-1997) involving offenders who had sexually abused children and adolescents. Using discursive social psychology…
Dissonance, self-perception, and the perception of others
Dissonance, self-perception, and the perception of others
Are the Rules of Address Universal
Our basic questions were: Does the alleged universality of Brown's invariant norm of address (1965) extend to Korean usage, and is the structure of address exchange cross-culturally similar for Korean, Greek, and Chinese speakers? To answer the first question, 73 Korean speakers from both Korea and Canada reported actual address usage received from and sent to 34 categories of interactants. Their answers were coded in terms of three quantitative …
Are the Rules of Address Universal
Our basic question was: Does the alleged universality of Brown's Invariant Norm of Address (1965) extend to Greek usage? 56 Greek speakers forming a diverse sample reported actual address usage received from and sent to 28 categories of interactants. Their answers were coded in terms of three quantitative indices which measure the degree of reciprocity, solidarity, and inequality in dyadic address exchanges. The indices permit the precise compari…
Needed
Needed
Social Competence and the Rules of Address
Are people able to recognise violations of the rules of address, thus revealing their knowledge of the rules underlying address exchanges? A sample of 128 male and female undergraduates judged 64 scenarios containing systematic violations of four rules drawn from Ervin-Tripp's (1969) model of the American Address System. Strong positive relationships were found between the degree of rule violation and the ability of the respondents to recognise t…
Life satisfaction among the rural elderly
Talk to Elders
In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation the…
Politeness and Forms of Address
The present paper considers the politeness of forms of address in terms of Brown & Levinson's (1987) theory of politeness. We present a conceptual analysis of the elements of politeness for six kinds of nominal address exchange and of the politeness expected for different categories of social relationship. These theoretical values are then compared to the politeness of address exchanges collected in a series of previous studies. The results of bo…
Gerontological research on the quality of life
Are the Rules of Address Universal
The authors' basic questions were: Does the alleged universality of R. Brown's Invariant Norm of Address extend to German usage and is the structure of address exchange cross-culturally similar for Chinese, Korean, Greek, and German speakers? Reports were obtained from two age samples of 91 female and male German speakers residing in West Germany of actual address usage received from and sent to 27 categories of interactants. The results supporte…
Reification, "faking," and the Big Five
Reification, "faking," and the Big Five
Forms of address, discourse and aging
Formulating Rape
Previous psychological research involving women who have been raped is criticized for its focus on psychopathology, its use of traditional methodologies, its limited conception of the person, and its reliance on dichotomous categories. A social constructionist, discourse analytic approach is offered as an alternative. Eight women who had been raped by dates or acquaintances volunteered for open-ended, unstructured interviews. Their accounts had t…
The Analysis of Face Work in Discourse
The Brown-Levinson (1987) theory of politeness has attracted a great deal of attention from a variety of disciplines. However, the lack of systematic methods for assessing discourse in terms of politeness has hampered the evaluation and development of the theory and the comparison of findings from different studies. The authors present a proposal that attempts to address some of the limitations of previous approaches and to extend their applicati…
Discourses on Discourse
Tseëlon presents an ambitious analysis of gender display that draws upon historical, empirical, psychoanalytic and cultural studies approaches. WiLkinson and Kitzinger offer discussions of empirical work (e.g. on sexual harassment) and considerations of discourse analysis as theory and method. The works address and exemplify the tensions between language as discourse and as situated utterance, and between relativism and commitment to political ch…
Doing Discourse Analysis
PART ONE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Language, Discourse and Discourse Analysis Varieties of Discourse Analysis Example of Discourse Analysis PART TWO: METHOD Discourse and Data Data Collection Preparation for Analysis PART THREE: ANALYSIS Analysis I Strategies of Interpretation Analysis II Patterns and Context Identities in Talk Research Examples PART FOUR: EVALUATING AND REPORTING Warranting in Discourse Analysis Writing the Report
Sexual Motives and Sentencing
The motives ascribed to offenders in the sentencing of sexual abuse crimes can be highly contentious. Some critics claim that sexual assaults are acts of power and violence and that reference to sexual motives minimizes violence and the seriousness of the offense. The present study examines 74 Canadian judicial sentencing decisions (1993-1997) involving offenders who had sexually abused children and adolescents. Using discursive social psychology…
Constructing Remorse
Remorse is an important consideration in sentencing, but the process of designating remorse has received little direct research attention. Using discursive psychology, the authors examine sentencing decisions in 74 cases of child sexual assault to identify the practices involved in judges' constructions of remorse. As expected, guilty pleas are used as evidence of remorse and vice versa. However, the judges do a good deal of additional work to su…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)