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Compliance, resistance and incipient compliance when responding to directives (2012)
Journal Article
Kent. (2012). Compliance, resistance and incipient compliance when responding to directives. Discourse Studies, 711 -730. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445612457485

How does a parent get a child to do something? And, indeed, how might the child avoid complying or seem to comply without actually having done so? This article uses conversation analysis to identify the interactionally preferred and dispreferred resp... Read More about Compliance, resistance and incipient compliance when responding to directives.