Introduction

Authors

  • Isabella Paoletti CRIS (Centro di Ricerca e Intervento Sociale), Largo Cacciatori delle Alpi 22, 06121 Perugia, Italy
  • Elisabet Cedersund Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, SE-60174 Norrköping

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.26891

Keywords:

storytelling, moral work, professional practice

Author Biographies

  • Isabella Paoletti, CRIS (Centro di Ricerca e Intervento Sociale), Largo Cacciatori delle Alpi 22, 06121 Perugia, Italy

    Isabella Paoletti is a researcher at CRIS (Social Research and Intervention Centre) NGO, Perugia, Italy. Her research interests are informed by discourse analysis, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and ethnography, studying interaction in institutional settings. Among her recent publications are Active Aging and Inclusive Communities: Inter-Institutional Intervention in Portugal (Aging International, 2015); ‘Future talk in later life’ (with S. Gomes), Journal of Aging Studies 29: 131–141 (2014).

  • Elisabet Cedersund, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, SE-60174 Norrköping

    Elisabet Cedersund is Professor at the Division Ageing and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden. She has conducted research on and written about institutional discourse, the construction of financial problems in social welfare interviews and narratives in social work and educational settings.

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2017-12-12

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Paoletti, I., & Cedersund, E. (2017). Introduction. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 10(3), 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.26891