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Publication details [#42661]

O’Halloran, Kieran A. 2005. Symmetry in interaction in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous: the management of conflict. Discourse & Society 16 (4) : 535–560.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | conversational analysis | drinking encounter | turn-taking

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper uses the detailed analysis of one moment of conflict to examine the turn-taking system of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and the way members are discursively aligned to each other.