Publications

Publication details [#63882]

Pino, Marco. 2018. Invoking the Complainer’s Past Transgressions: A Practice for Undermining Complaints in Therapeutic Community Meetings. Research on Language & Social Interaction 51 (2) : 194–211.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | complaining | drug culture | error | therapeutic conversation

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper states that appealing complainers' past offenses can subvert their moral claims to utter complaints, in this case, in therapeutic communities for the handling of people getting better after drug abuse. Data are in Italian with English translation.