Antaki, Charles, Chinn, Deborah, Finlay, W. M. L., Walton, Chris and Sempik, Joe (2020) To initiate repair or not? Coping with difficulties in the talk of adults with intellectual disabilities. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 34 (10-11). pp. 954-976. ISSN 1464-5076
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Abstract
How do health and social care professionals deal with undecipherable talk produced by adults with intellectual disabilities (ID)? Some of their practices are familiar from the other-initiated repair canon. But some practices seem designed for, or at least responsive to, the needs of the institutional task at hand, rather than those of difficult-to-understand conversational partners. One such practice is to reduce the likelihood of the person with ID issuing any but the least repair-likely utterances, or indeed having to speak at all. If they do produce a repairable turn, then, as foreshadowed by Barnes and Ferguson’s (2015) work on conversations with people with aphasia, their interlocutors may overlook its deficiencies, respond only minimally, simply pass up taking a turn, or deal with it discreetly with an embedded repair. When the interlocutor does call for a repair, they will tend to offer candidate understandings built from comparatively flimsy evidence in the ID speaker's utterance. Open-class repair initiators are reserved for utterances with the least evidence to go on, and the greatest projection of a response from the interlocutor. We reflect on what this tells us about the dilemma facing those who support people with intellectual disabilities.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Keywords: | learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, communication, interaction, conversation analysis |
Faculty: | Faculty of Science & Engineering |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic User |
Depositing User: | Symplectic User |
Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2019 08:49 |
Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2021 18:53 |
URI: | https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/704886 |
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