Publications

Publication details [#50963]

Musiol, Michel and Christine Bocéréan. 2009. Mutual understanding mechanism in verbal exchanges between carers and multiply- disabled young people: An interaction structure analysis. Pragmatics 19 (2) : 161–177.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

caregiver-child conversation | cognition | conversational analysis | discourse strategy | health

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This conversation analytic study explores and describes how in verbal exchanges between caregivers and multiply disabled young people, the latter's pathologies affect the cognitive processes involved in mutual understanding.