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Publication details [#49107]

Roca-Cuberes, Carles. 2008. Membership categorization and professional insanity ascription. Discourse Studies 10 (4) : 543–570.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | health | interview | mental faculty | psychiatry

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on Sacks's model of membership categorization analysis, this paper examines the process of insanity ascription or exoneration in psychiatric interviews, mainly based on commonsense reasoning.