Wilkinson2011d

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Wilkinson2011d
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Wilkinson2011d
Author(s) Sue Wilkinson
Title Improving ethnic monitoring on a telephone helpline
Editor(s) Charles Antaki
Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnicity, Helplines
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2011
Language English
City Basingstoke, U.K.
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Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 75–97
URL Link
DOI 10.1057/9780230316874_5
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Applied Conversation Analysis: Intervention and Change in Institutional Talk
Chapter 5

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Abstract

How can Conversation Analysis be used to help an organisation handle sensitive questions over the phone? In this chapter, I describe my experiences with a telephone-based helpline service whose call-takers were experiencing real difficulties in asking callers to declare their ethnicity, as part of a call-monitoring process.

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