Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional discourse by now well established fields in linguistic research discourses of helping professions represent an innovative concept in its orientation to a common communicative goal: solving patients and clients physical, psychological, emotional, professional or managerial problems via a...