Publications

Publication details [#64760]

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

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complaining | crime | morality | social interaction | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study explores how a person who is the target of a complaint can subvert the moral claim of the complainer to utter that complaint. They do so by referring to the complainer’s own past offenses.