Working to keep aligned in psychotherapy using nods as a dialogic resource to display affiliation

Language and Dialogue

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-27

  Muntigl, Peter ^a   Knight, Naomi ^b   Watkins, Ashley ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affectual stance; Affiliation; Conversation analysis; Nodding; Psychotherapy discourse; Reformulation; Social alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875066569     PISSN: 22104119     EISSN: 22104127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ld.2.1.01mun     Document Type: Article

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