'You can't' but 'I do': Rules, ethics and the significance of shifts in pronominal forms for self-positioning in talk

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 535-551

  Yates, Scott ^a   Hiles, David ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; community care; deixis; deontic modality; discourse analysis; interviews; learning difficulties; participant frameworks; pronouns; self positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955666371     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445610370128     Document Type: Article

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