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Publication details [#56810]

O’Reilly, Michelle and Nicola Parker. 2012. ‘Gossiping’ as a social action in family therapy: The pseudo-absence and pseudo-presence of children. Discourse Studies 14 (4) : 457–475.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | family role | family therapy | gossip | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses the ‘pseudo-presence and absence’ of children in and the institutional ‘gossiping’ quality of naturally occurring family therapy sessions, serving alignment construction, employed in this context to manage responsibility.