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Lindholm, Camilla, Charlotta Plejert and Gunilla Jansson. 2019. The social organization of assistance in multilingual interaction in Swedish residential care. Discourse Studies 21 (1) : 67–94.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper examines the organization of assistance in multilingual interaction in Swedish residential care. It underlines the cooperative ways in which residents manage to bolster their talk via bodily practices, and the intense and empathetic engagement with which caregivers get involved with interpreting the meaning of these practices.