Antaki2014b

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Antaki2014b
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Antaki2014b
Author(s) Charles Antaki
Title How practitioners deal with their clients' “off-track” talk
Editor(s) Eva-Maria Graf, Marlene Sator, Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
Tag(s) Applied, Institutional talk, Psychotherapy
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2014
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 13–32
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/pbns.252.02ant
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Howpublished
Book title Discourses of Helping Professions
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Abstract

In institutional encounters where a client engages with a practitioner for advice or guidance, there is a phase in which the client may be expected to ‘tell their tale’ before the practitioner offers a response. In this chapter I shall analyse the kind of professional conversation which involves with a client being invited to describe a personal and indeed intimate problem, in order for the professional to offer their perspective (and possibly suggest a solution). The client’s problems here are matters of emotion, conflict or life-style, caused or sharpened by psychological disorder or disability – in other words, we shall be listening in to what the editors term as the ‘professional format’ of the counselling, personal-­support and therapy consultation.

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