Publications

Publication details [#45708]

Antaki, Charles. 2007. Mental-health practitioners’ use of idiomatic expressions in summarising clients’ accounts. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (3) : 527–541.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | idiom, processing of | mental faculty | psychotherapy

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how some British mental-health professionals exploit interactionally terminal characteristics of idiomatic expressions -that is their supposed universality and unchallengeability- in interactions with their patients, in order to accomplish some institutional objective.