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How adults with a profound intellectual disability engage others in interaction
journal contribution
posted on 2016-09-01, 13:22 authored by Charles Antaki, Rebecca J. Crompton, Chris Walton, W.M.L. FinlayUsing video records of everyday life in a residential home, we report on what
interactional practices are used by people with severe and profound
intellectual disabilities to initiate encounters. There were very few initiations,
and all presented difficulties to the interlocutor; one (which we call "blank
recipiency") gave the interlocutor virtually no information at all on which to
base a response. Only when the initiation was of a new phase in an interaction
already under way (for example, the initiation of an alternative trajectory of a
proposed physical move) was it likely to be successfully sustained. We show
how interlocutors (support staff; the recording researcher) responded to
initiations verbally, as if to neurotypical speakers - but inappropriately for
people unable to comprehend, or to produce well-fitted next turns. This misreliance
on ordinary speakers' conversational practices was one factor that
contributed to residents abandoning the interaction in almost all cases. We
discuss the dilemma confronting care workers.
History
Published in
Sociology of Health and Illness: a journal of medical sociologyVolume
39Issue
4Pages
581 - 598Citation
ANTAKI, C. ... et al., 2016. How adults with a profound intellectual disability engage others in interaction. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39 (4), pp. 581–598.Publisher
Wiley © Foundation for the Sociology of Health & IllnessVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2016-08-11Publication date
2016-10-20Notes
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: ANTAKI, C. ... et al., 2016. How adults with a profound intellectual disability engage others in interaction. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39 (4), pp. 581–598., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12500. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived VersionsISSN
1467-9566Publisher version
Language
- en