Aids Counselling - Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice

Klappentext Applies the principles of conversation analysis to AIDS counselling situations. Zusammenfassung Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. This study applies the principles of conversation analysis to an exploration of AIDS counselling! using data from video-recorded counselling sessions in a London teaching hospital. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The quasi-conversational turn-taking; 3. The client as owner of experience; 4. The management of co-counsellors' questions; 5. Some interactional uses of co-counsellors' questions; 6. Addressing 'dreaded issues'; 7. The interactional power of hypothetical questions; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; References; Index.

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• Authors: Anssi Per Kyl, Per¿l¿Anssi, Anssi Perakyla, Anssi (Helsingfors Universitet) Perakyla, Anssi Peräkylä
• Assisted by: Paul Drew (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2005
• EAN: 9780521022880
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02288-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics