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

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 44, Issue 6-7, 2012, Pages 876-889

  Antaki, Charles ^a   Kent, Alexandra ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency; Conversation analysis; Directives; Entitlement; Imperatives; Institutional talk; Intellectual impairment; Requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861335553     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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