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Wooffitt2001c
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Key	Wooffitt2001c
Author(s)	Robin Wooffitt
Title	Raising the dead: reported speech in medium-sitter interaction
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Tag(s)	EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Mediumship, Institutional interaction
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Year	2001
Language	English
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Journal	Discourse Studies
Volume	3
Number	3
Pages	351–374
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DOI	10.1177/1461445601003003005
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-|Abstract=This article reports some findings from a study of verbal interaction from sittings between members of the public and mediums: people who claim to be able to talk to the dead on behalf of the living. Instead of trying to debunk the ontological status of the mediums' claimed powers and the existence of the afterlife, the article examines mediums' discourse as a form of institutional interaction. It focuses on instances in which mediums report the words of their spirit contacts in their sittings with clients. It is argued that this is a key practice by which mediums establish the basis of a favourable assessment of the authenticity of their powers. The analysis examines the recurrent organizational properties of utterances in which the spirits' words are introduced into the sitting, and describes some of the inferential or rhetorical tasks addressed by these reports.
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