Brewer1991
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Brewer1991 |
Author(s) | John D. Brewer, Gill McBridge, Steven Yearley |
Title | Orchestrating an encounter: a note on the talk of mentally handicapped children |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Mental Health, Child mental health, Self-assessment, Communicative competence |
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Year | 1991 |
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Journal | Sociology of Health and Illness |
Volume | 13 |
Number | 1 |
Pages | 58–68 |
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DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11340317 |
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Abstract
Patterns of power, leadership, authority and status within a group are all displayed in interaction and materially affect the flow of natural conversation. Authority and status, often accorded by mentally handicapped children on the basis of self-assessments of communicative competence, can constitute important local resources which enable one of the parties to assume the role of co-ordinator of the conversational interaction. In this case the interaction comes to comprise a type of setting known as an ‘orchestrated encounter’, where the talk takes a particular form which deviates from mundane everyday conversations. We use the notion of'orchestrated encounter’ to demonstrate the communicative competence of some children with severe learning difficulties.
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