Telling people what to do (and, sometimes, why): contingency, entitlement and explanation in staff requests to adults with intellectual impairments

How do support staff resolve the interactional dilemma of getting their clients to do things, while respecting their independence? In a corpus of over 200 everyday requests made by residential home staff to adults with an intellectual impairment, the staff tended to use formats which claimed high en...

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Main Authors:	Charles Antaki, A Kent
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Other human society not elsewhere classified Linguistics not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Philosophy not elsewhere classified Requests Directives Imperatives Entitlement Contingency Intellectual impairment Institutional talk Conversation analysis Linguistics Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Philosophy
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14912
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