Includes bibliographical references and index.

From ontology to methodology : exploring the discursive landscape of trust / Christopher N. Candlin and Jonathan Crichton -- Trust in what others mean : breakdowns in interaction between adults with intellectual disabilities and support staff / Charles Antaki and William M.L. Finlay -- Trust, distrust, and communication accommodation among hospital doctors / David G. Hewett, Bernadette M. Watson and Cindy Gallois -- Engendering trust in a multiparty consultation involving an adolescent patient / Catherine O'Grady and Christopher N. Candlin -- Trust after medical incidents / Katja Beitat, Günter Bentele and Rick Iedema -- At the boundaries of the clinic : discourses of trust in amputee care / Lenore Manderson and Narelle Warren -- Pursuing trust in child protection meetings : familiarisation and informality / Christopher Hall [and others] -- 'Will there be flowers shoved at me?' A study in organisational trust, moral order and professional integrity / Jonathan Crichton -- Goffman's theory of self and the social order : trust and conflict in an intercultural education workplace / Michael J. Torpey and Neil H. Johnson -- Achieving professional trustworthiness : communicative expertise and identity work in professional accounting practice / Alan Jones and Samantha Sin -- Producing trust in country financial narratives / Clea Bourne -- Trusting the high street bank : understanding consumer trust in a major financial institution / Judy Delin -- 'You say "I'm sure" but you're not, are you?' Trust and distrust in police interviews / Frances Rock -- The role of media discourses in undermining trust in the legal profession / Rachel Spencer -- Nanotechnologies and trust / Alison Anderson and Alan Petersen -- The discursive production and impairment of public trust through rhetorical representations of science : the case of global climate change / Graham Smart -- Trust or betrayal : immigrant engineers' employment-seeking experiences in Canada / Julie Kerekes [and others] -- Lack of trust in the organisational context : a study of accounts in a privatized company / Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira, Junia de Vilhena and Joana de Vilhena Novaes -- Discourse analysis, trust and marketing / Sue Halliday and Maurizio Catulli -- Talking and doing trust in community relations / Heather Jackson.

"Trust is foundational to people's lives in contemporary societies, a fact sharply highlighted by recent practices associated with the financial markets, international security, science and technology, marketing and public relations, and even more pervasively and ever-presently in the delivery, for example, of health and welfare services, in educational policy and practice, in legal processes, and in the public and private arenas of political and religious institutions. Discourses of Trust presents invited chapters from leading practitioners and researchers exploring how Trust and misTrust are discursively constructed across key social and professional domains. The thesis of this volume is that Trust-related and Trust-bearing issues are central to our understanding of how the conduct of professional practices impacts on human relationships in social life. "-- Provided by publisher.