Publications
Publication details [#56472]
Kitzinger, Celia and Rebecca Shaw. 2012. Compliments on a Home Birth Helpline. Research on Language and Social Interaction 45 (3) : 213–244.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This study investigates the positive assessments (in particular complimenting) of a single professional call-taker across 80 Home Birth helpline calls, analyzing their design, how they are responded to, and the (other or additional) actions they perform.