Entering chair work in psychotherapy: An interactional structure for getting emotion-focused talk underway

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 117, Issue , 2017, Pages 168-189

  Muntigl, Peter ^a,b   Chubak, Lynda ^a   Angus, Lynne ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chair work; Conversation analysis; Deontics; Emotion focused therapy; Emotions; Epistemics; Participation framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023634513     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.06.016     Document Type: Article

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