Publications

Publication details [#48527]

O’Reilly, Michelle. 2008. What value is there in children's talk? Investigating family therapists’ interruptions of parents and children during the therapeutic process. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 507–524.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | child language | interruption | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This discourse analytic study explores the construction and treatment of family therapists' interruptions of child clients, which are not accompanied by politeness or apologies in contrast to their interruptions of adult/parent clients.