Conversational shaping: staff-members' solicitation of talk from people with an intellectual impairment

In initiating and maintaining talk with people with intellectual impairments, members of care staff use a range of recurrent conversational devices. The authors list six of the more common of these devices, explain how they work interactionally, and speculate on how they serve institutional interest...

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Main Authors:	Charles Antaki, W.M.L. Finlay, Chris Walton
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2007
Subjects:	Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Intellectual impairment Mental retardation Conversation analysis Interaction Empowerment Conversation Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/5434
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