Troubled Talk: Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse

How is meaning constructed discursively by participants in problem discourse? To which discursive resources do they resort in order to accomplish their complicated tasks of problem presentation and negotiation of possible solutions? To what extent are these resources related to the interactional and meaningful construction of problems and solutions?

Irit Kupferberg and David Green– a discourse analyst and a clinical psychologist– have explored naturally-occurring media, hotline, and cyb…