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Producing and managing restricted activities: An introduction to avoidance and withholding in institutional interaction
Assessments, interrogatives and semi-scripted talk in managing a restriction on advising
Avoiding giving advice in telephone counselling for children and young people: Empowerment as practical action
Withholding explicit assessments in tourist-office talk
“But whose side are you on?”: Doing being independent in telephone-mediated dispute resolution
“Don’t tell him just help him”: Restricted interactional activity during a classroom writing lesson
“I’ll suggest that to your doctor”: Managing interactional restrictions on treatment provision in secondary care obesity consultations
Linguistic and interactional restrictions in an outpatient clinic: The challenge of delivering the diagnosis and explaining the aetiology of functional neurological problems
Responses to indirect complaints as restricted activities in Therapeutic Community meetings
Talking to/through the baby to produce and manage disaffiliation during well-child visits
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