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Title : Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services Release : 2018-08-30 Genre : Language Arts and Disciplines Author : Elizabeth L. Angeli Publisher : Routledge Rating : / ID book : 0xBqDwAAQBAJ Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace details how communicators harness the power of rhetoric to make decisions and communicate in unpredictable contexts. Grounded in a 16-month study in the emergency medical services (EMS) workplace, this text contributes to our theoretical, methodological, and practical understandings of the situation-specific processes that communicators and researchers engage in to respond to the urgencies and constraints of high-stakes workplaces. This book presents these intricate processes and skills—learned and innate—that workplace communicators use to accomplish goal-directed activity, collaborate with other communicators, and complete and teach workplace writing. You can Read Online or Download Ebooks PDF The R...

Title : The Literary and Linguistic Construction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Release : 2015-09-15 Genre : Language Arts and Disciplines Author : Patricia Friedrich Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan Rating : / ID book : 9oJMrgEACAAJ What does it mean to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder in a time when the word |obsession| has become synonymous with |driven|, |focused| or |infatuated|? This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder, both in its contemporary form and its historical antecedent, to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive society. The chapters visit memoirs, historical texts, novels and movies to demonstrate how each of these manifestations becomes a part of the |story| of OCD. In that sense, we construct reality based on the discourses that are available to us, and the discourses of OCD are yet to encom...