On the moral and interactional relevancy of self-repairs for life stories of members of alcoholics anonymous*

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Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-480

  Arminen, Ilkka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcoholics Anonymous; Ethnomethodological conversation analysis of monological talk.; Moral work; Mutual help; Self repair; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002313928     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1996.16.4.449     Document Type: Article

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