Responses to indirect complaints as restricted activities in Therapeutic Community meetings

Pino, Marco (2015) Responses to indirect complaints as restricted activities in Therapeutic Community meetings. In: Producing and managing restricted activities: avoidance and withholding in institutional interaction. Pragmatics & beyond new series (255). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 271-304. ISBN 9789027256607

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Abstract

In this chapter I investigate how the staff members of a mental health Therapeutic Community in Italy avoid displays of affiliation in response to residents’ indirect (or third party) complaints. I show how this restriction can be embodied in different practices: ignoring a resident’s turn carrying a possible complaint, avoiding attending the complaint-components of a resident’s turn, and disaffiliating with a resident’s complaint. I also discuss a deviant case in which affiliation is produced and is later treated by the staff members as a problematic stance to be produced following a resident’s complaint. I argue that through a restriction on affiliation the staff members implement the institutionally-relevant identity of intermediaries, whose task is to encourage the residents’ compliance to the decisions of absent third parties.

Item Type: Book Section
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/992843
Additional Information: Copyright John Benjamins, who should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form..
Keywords: Conversation Analysis, Complaints, Therapeutic Community, Mental Health
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.255.09pin
Depositing User: Pino, Dr Marco
Date Deposited: 18 May 2015 08:46
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:11
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/28651

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