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Mondada, Lorenza. 1998. Therapy interactions: Specific genre or "blown up" version of ordinary conversational practices ? Pragmatics 8 (2) : 155–165.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
clinical interview | conversational analysis | genre | institutional context | participant | therapeutic conversation
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This article argues that therapy interaction qualifies as a specific interactional genre, which is described in terms of conversation analysis. Participant's orientation towards therapy sessions provides additional support for the genre status.