Hutchby2018

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Hutchby2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hutchby2018
Author(s) Ian Hutchby, Alison Dart
Title ‘Let’s check-in with our tummies’: Orienting to feelings-talk in group supervision for psychotherapy counsellors
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, counselling, group supervision, feelings talk, overall structural organisation, sequential organisation, psychotherapy, institutional interaction
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 20
Number 5
Pages 598–612
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DOI 10.1177/1461445618760600
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Abstract

This article examines a particular kind of business-opening activity found in a specific, and little analysed, type of institutional group meeting: group supervision for psychotherapeutic counsellors. The data consist of a particular set of activities that occur in the initial stages of these meetings, which are neither the kind of pre-meeting talk identified by previous research on interaction in meetings, nor specifically the business of group supervision itself. This phase, referred to as the ‘check-in’, functions as an interim stage between small talk and getting down to business. The analysis shows how the check-in comprises a highly structured set of linguistic sequences whose production is bound up with one of the key interactional features of group supervision: the collaborative orientation to the production and relevance of ‘feelings-talk’.

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