Advice in Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction to advice in discourse -- 1. Setting the scene -- 2. From speech act and speech event to activity type and discourse -- 3. Part I: Advice in academic, educational and training settings -- 4. Part II: Advice in medical and health-related settings -- 5. Part III: Advice in computer-mediated settings -- 6. Part IV: Cross-cultural and corpus-linguistic perspectives on advice -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part I. Advice in academic, educational and training settings -- Chapter 2. Question-prefaced advice in feedback sequences of Finnish academic supervisions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Giving advice in interaction - a problem-solving endeavor -- 3. The data and the analytic procedure -- 4. The context for advice giving: The text feedback in academic supervision -- 5. Preparing advice through a question-answer sequence -- 6. The analysis -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- Transcription symbols -- References -- Chapter 3. 'You could make this clearer': Teachers' advice on ESL academic writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some background: Advice on L2 student writing -- 3. A corpus and method: Advice in two contexts -- 4. Patterns of advice in written feedback -- 5. Forms of advice in written feedback -- 6. Student response to advice -- 7. Students' interpretation of advice -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. 'It wouldn't hurt if you had your child evaluated': Advice to mothers in responses to vignettes from a US teaching context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Data collection instrument -- 2.2 Procedures -- 3. Data coding and analysis -- 3.1 Advice and advice list -- 3.2 Referral -- 3.3 Elaboration -- 3.4 Display of expertise -- 3.5 Assessment -- 3.6 Empathy -- 3.7 Criticism.

4. Results and discussion of components -- 5. Relational work in advice-giving -- 5.1 Mitigating strategies -- 5.2 Bonding strategies -- 5.3 Criticism -- 5.4 Expertise -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. The advising sequence and its preference structures in graduate peer tutoring at an American university -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data set -- 4. Build a case -- 4.1 Build a case: Tutee-inferred advice -- 4.2 Build a case: Tutor-articulated advice -- 5. Cut to the chase -- 6. Conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Chapter 6. 'Yes that's a good idea': Peer advice in academic discourse at a UK university -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Enacting and 'taking up' advice -- 3. Senior/novice roles and expertise identity in peer advice encounters -- 4. Method -- 5. Advice giving -- 5.1 Doing expertise in the advice event -- 5.2 Enacting expertise: Establishing the problem, providing a solution -- 5.3 Doing solidarity in doing expertise -- 5.4 Advice giving - revisited -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- References -- Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Mentoring and advice at work -- 1.2 Responding to advice -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Data collection and dataset -- 2.2 Definition of advice -- 2.3 Research questions and framework -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Giving advice to migrants in the workplace -- 3.2 Migrants responses to advice in the workplace -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. Advice in medical and health-related settings -- Chapter 8. Advice giving - terminable and interminable: The case of British health visitors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data.

3. Advice as advocacy and as information: Preliminary observations on epistemics and interactional dynamics -- 3.1 Advocacy advice -- 3.2 Advice as "information" -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Problems in exiting advocacy advice -- 4.2 Resources for exits to advice sequences -- 4.3 Passive resistance in advice giving sequences that involve activity contamination -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- References -- Chapter 9. 'You may know better than I do': Negotiating advice-giving in Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data and contextual background -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Transcription conventions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 10. Requesting and receiving advice on the telephone: An analysis of telephone helplines in Australia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Helpline advice: Initial considerations -- 3. Aspects of advice requesting -- 4. Aspects of the provision of advice -- 5. Professional and institutional constraints on advice giving -- 6. Conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Chapter 11. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and data -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Giving and rejecting advice -- 3.2 Interrogating -- 3.3 Supporting the advice with additional accounts -- 3.4 Supporting the advice with additional accounts and expressions of concern/worry -- 4. Discussion -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Part III. Advice in computer-mediated settings -- Chapter 12. Online advice in Japanese: Giving advice in an Internet discussion forum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related studies -- 2.1 Online advice -- 2.2 Cultural values and Japanese discourse -- 3 Data and methodology -- 3.1 The website -- 3.2 Data.

3.3 Methodology -- 4. The form and content of advice messages -- 4.1 Assessment -- 4.2 Advice -- 4.3 Own experience -- 5. Relational work in advice messages -- 5.1 Frequent relational strategies -- 5.2 Other relational strategies -- 6. Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 13. Online peer-to-peer advice in Spanish Yahoo!Respuestas -- 1. Introduction and background -- 2. Advice-giving -- 3. Some features of YR vis-à-vis classical advice columns -- Interactional structure -- Absence of an expert figure -- Absence of editorial involvement -- Absence of a particular writing format -- YR as a gaming site -- 4. Sample corpus examined: Data employed and some methodological and ethical issues -- 5. Analysis of sample corpus -- 5.1 Discursive moves -- 5.2 (Dis)affiliative strategies -- Seeking closeness -- Conveying warm feelings -- Offering reassurance and encouragement -- Conveying empathy -- Humour -- 6. Final remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV. Cross-cultural and corpus linguistic perspectives on advice -- Chapter 14. 'Advice' in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspective -- 1. Choosing an anchor for cross-linguistic comparisons of 'discourses of advice' -- 2. The NSM approach to semantic and cultural analysis -- 3. Speech acts and speech act verbs -- 4. Explicating the English lexical and conceptual categories 'advise' and 'advice' -- 5. Anglo 'advice' seen from a Russian perspective -- 6. The Russian verb 'sovetovat' (roughly, 'to give advice') -- 7. Some Russian and Anglo cultural scripts -- 8. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15. 'Well it's not for me to advise you, of course...': Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The etymology of advice and advise -- 3. Corpus-based analyses of advise and advice -- 3.1 The data.

3.2 Advise in the BNC -- 3.3 Advice in the BNC -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Contributors -- Subject index -- Author index.