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Publication details [#61573]

McCreaddie, May. 2016. Responding to What Is Left Implicit: Psychotherapists’ Formulations and Understanding Checks After Clients’ Turn-Final Että (“That/So”). Research on Language and Social Interaction 49 (3) : 238–257.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

When patients close a turn at talk with että (“that” or “so”) in Finnish psychotherapy, letting some turn aspect implicit and asking the recipient somehow to handle the hint, therapist ensuing phrasings and comprehension checks serve to deal with problematic telling contents and to manage opposition.