Chapter 8. Mobilizing others when you have little (recognizable) language
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Charles Antaki
Abstract
Getting another person to engage with you is, for most people, most of the time, a merely trivial challenge. Of course, there are times when our attempts are awkward, or misfire; nevertheless, usually we bring them off smoothly and successfully. But it is far from easy if you have an intellectual impairment; and, a fortiori, dauntingly challenging if the impairment is profound. For someone with severe cognitive and communicative incapacity, the attempt to get others to do things is highly, perhaps entirely, dependent on the others’ doubtful construction of just what it is that they are supposed to do. This chapter is about those attempts: how they succeed, and how (as they often do) they fail.
Abstract
Getting another person to engage with you is, for most people, most of the time, a merely trivial challenge. Of course, there are times when our attempts are awkward, or misfire; nevertheless, usually we bring them off smoothly and successfully. But it is far from easy if you have an intellectual impairment; and, a fortiori, dauntingly challenging if the impairment is profound. For someone with severe cognitive and communicative incapacity, the attempt to get others to do things is highly, perhaps entirely, dependent on the others’ doubtful construction of just what it is that they are supposed to do. This chapter is about those attempts: how they succeed, and how (as they often do) they fail.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Mobilizing others 1
- Chapter 2. Requesting here-and-now actions with two imperative formats in Korean interaction 19
- Chapter 3. Mobilizing for the next relevant action 47
- Chapter 4. Recruitments in French 83
- Chapter 5. Mobilizing student compliance 115
- Chapter 6. Linguistic structures emerging in the synchronization of a Pilates class 147
- Chapter 7. Multimodal mechanisms for mobilizing students to give pre-structured responses in French L2 classroom interaction 175
- Chapter 8. Mobilizing others when you have little (recognizable) language 203
- Chapter 9. When emergencies are not urgent 229
- Chapter 10. Doing more than expected 253
- Appendix. Glossary of transcription conventions 279
- Index 283
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Mobilizing others 1
- Chapter 2. Requesting here-and-now actions with two imperative formats in Korean interaction 19
- Chapter 3. Mobilizing for the next relevant action 47
- Chapter 4. Recruitments in French 83
- Chapter 5. Mobilizing student compliance 115
- Chapter 6. Linguistic structures emerging in the synchronization of a Pilates class 147
- Chapter 7. Multimodal mechanisms for mobilizing students to give pre-structured responses in French L2 classroom interaction 175
- Chapter 8. Mobilizing others when you have little (recognizable) language 203
- Chapter 9. When emergencies are not urgent 229
- Chapter 10. Doing more than expected 253
- Appendix. Glossary of transcription conventions 279
- Index 283
