ABSTRACT
Assessing the Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) intervention was purported that empowerment could be evidenced in an individual's language use and understood through combining theories of linguistic analysis. The model of empowerment was informed by a number of concepts derived from linguistics such as stance, evidentiality, face and epistemic authority. It explores the various approaches to shape the linguistic analysis of the conversational data. The chapter argues that the keyness of the data in relation to the aim of bringing about empowerment through perspective change would be founded in the moments in the data where key categories identified through the statistical method of corpus analysis interact with one another. Pragmatics is a field of linguistics concerned with the ways in which context shapes meaning beyond the more constant semantic and grammatical meanings of words. It describes the ten phase transformative learning process and provides a guide for the kind of change to find in the data.
