Clients' resistance to therapists' proposals: Managing epistemic and deontic status

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 90, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-25

  Ekberg, Katie ^a   LeCouteur, Amanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Client resistance; Conversation analysis; Deontics; Epistemics; Proposals; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947768023     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.10.004     Document Type: Article

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