Compliance, resistance and incipient compliance when responding to directives

Discourse Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 711-730

  Kent, Alexandra ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authority; children; compliance; conversation analysis; deontic rights; directives; family mealtimes; power; resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871362223     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445612457485     Document Type: Article

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