Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Stigma and conversational competence: A conversation analytic study of the mentally handicapped

  • Articles
  • Published:
Human Studies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Atkinson, P. (1985). Talk and identity: Some convergences in micro-sociology. In H. Helle and S. Eisenstadt (Eds.), Micro-sociological theory. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bjaanes, A.T. (1979). Imitation and competence: A study of retarded adults. In H. Schwartz and J. Jacobs, Qualitative sociology. New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dingwall, R. (1980). Orchestrated encounters: An essay in the comparative analysis of speech-exchange systems. Sociology of Health and Illness 2:151–173.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goffman, E. (1968). Stigma. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goffman, E. (1972). The neglected situation. In P. Giglioli (Ed.), Language and context. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goffman, E. (1981). Forms of talk. Oxford: Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hadden, S., and Lester, M. (1978). Talking identity: The problem of ‘self’ in interaction. Human Studies 1: 351–356.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hammersley, M. (1977). School learning: The cultural resources required to answer a teacher's question. In P. Woods and M. Hammersley (Eds.), School Experience. London: Croom Helm.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heath, C. (1982). Preserving the consultation. Sociology of Health and Illness 4: 56–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hughes, D., and May, D., (1986). Order, rules and social control in two training centres for mentally retarded adults. Sociological Review 34: 158–184.

    Google Scholar 

  • Levinson, S.C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Merritt, M. (1976). On questions following questions (in service encounters). Language in Society 5: 315–357.

    Google Scholar 

  • Price-Williams, D., and Sabsay, S. (1979). Communicative competence among severely retarded persons. Semiotica 26: 35–63.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sacks, H., Schegloff, E., and Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation. Language 50: 696–735.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schegloff, D. (1972). Notes on conversational practice. In D. Sudnow (Ed.), Studies in interaction. New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schwartz, H., and Jacobs, J. (1979). Qualitative sociology. New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Social Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, BT7 1NN, Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Steven Yearley & John D. Brewer

Authors
  1. Steven Yearley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. John D. Brewer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

In addition to its presentation at the York Conference, a version of this paper was presented at the 11th World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, August 1986. 1986.

The paper was fully co-authored; the order of authors' names was determined by the tossing of a coin.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Yearley, S., Brewer, J.D. Stigma and conversational competence: A conversation analytic study of the mentally handicapped. Hum Stud 12, 97–115 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142841

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142841

Keywords

Search

Navigation