Brewer1991

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Brewer1991
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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