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Publication details [#57671]

Larsen, Tine. 2013. Dispatching Emergency Assistance: Callers' Claims of Entitlement and Call Takers' Decisions. Research on Language and Social Interaction 46 (3) : 205–230.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses how Danish emergency center call takers predicate their initial decision upon callers' entitlement claims (encoded into their request). The disadvantage of this staff custom is that ensuing questioning may, in fact, disclose the decision to be incorrect and the assistance dispatch to have been either prematurely started off or unduly deferred.