AntakiCrompton2015
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Charles Antaki, Rebecca J. Crompton |
| Title | Conversational practices promoting a discourse of agency for adults with intellectual disabilities |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Activities, agency, conversation, discourse empowerment, intellectual disability, personal control, questions |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Journal | Discourse & Society |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 645-661 |
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| DOI | 10.1177/0957926515592774 |
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Abstract
In a qualitative study of 50 hours of videotapes of interactions between staff and adults with intellectual disabilities, in two different service environments, we identified conversational practices that arguably promoted – or failed to promote – a discourse of service-users’ personal agency in how they carried out everyday activities. Staff could treat the service-user as an autonomous, self-directed social individual by (a) casting the activity in which they were engaged as being located in a meaningful overall framework, (b) designing their turns at talk as suggestions and requests for the service-user to follow as a matter of choice and (c) implying a joint purpose shared between service-user and a larger group in which he or she was a stakeholder. We discuss these findings in light of recent developments in the drive to empower service-users who have intellectual disabilities.
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