Rasmussen2016
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Rasmussen2016 |
| Author(s) | Gitte Rasmussen |
| Title | Repeated use of request for confirmation in atypical interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Atypical interaction, Adult, child, close-ended questions, cognitive impairment, communicative impairment, request for confimation |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics |
| Volume | 30 |
| Number | 10 |
| Pages | 849–870 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/02699206.2016.1209244 |
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Abstract
This study investigates a specific method for making possible the participation of participants with cognitive and communicative impairments in social face-to-face interaction. Non-impaired co-participants design close-ended questions that project who the next speaker is, i.e. the impaired co-participant. The questions also project what kind of response amongst alternatives the impaired co-participant is supposed to produce. Upon answers to these questions, the non-impaired co-participant requests the impaired participant to confirm the answer twice. Using conversation analytic (CA) methods, the study scrutinises what is achieved by requesting a confirmation of the provided answer – repeatedly so. The study argues that the practice may put the (deficit) competence of the participant with impairments in focus if the initial close-ended question works to establish an understanding of a prior action by the participant with impairments.
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