Language Usage and Social Action in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Discourse Analysis of a Therapy Session Fragment
A fragment of a therapy session is discussed using some of the tools of discourse analysis in an effort to demonstrate how speech acts serve as vehicles for the negotiation of roles and the transmittal of emotional/relational messages in the therapeutic dyad. In particular, issues of power asymmetry...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Language and Psychoanalysis |
| Online Access: | http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com//article/view/1597 |