Muntigl2008
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Muntigl2008 |
| Author(s) | Peter Muntigl, Lorely Hadic Zabala |
| Title | Expandable resources: how clients get prompted to say more during psychotherapy |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Therapy, Psychotherapy, Turn Expansions |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 41 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 187–226 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351810802028738 |
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Abstract
In this article, we analyze question–response sequences in couples therapy sessions and focus on clients' responses that are oriented to as expandable because they fail to address the therapist's questions in a manner that is relevant to the exigencies of the interactional tasks at hand. Given the importance of clients' narration of personal experience for therapy success, we examine the interactional resources used by therapists and clients to elicit expansion. We propose that the conversational organization of turn expansion is locally and sequentially organized such that participants orient to the response as expandable in their subsequent actions. Following Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks' (1977) Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G. and Sacks, H. 1977. The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language, 53: 361–382. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]
work on repair, we distinguish between self-initiation and other initiation of expansion and self-completion and other completion of expansion. Expansion was found to unfold in 4 distinct ways: (a) self(client)-initiated self-expansion, (b) other(therapist/spouse)-initiated self-expansion, (c) self-initiated other expansion, and (d) other-initiated other expansion.
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