Charles Antaki
List of John Benjamins publications in which Charles Antaki is involved.
Articles
2020 Chapter 8. Mobilizing others when you have little (recognizable) language Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities, Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen, Emma Betz and Peter Golato (eds.), pp. 203–228 | Chapter
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… read more
2014 How practitioners deal with their clients' "off-track" talk Discourses of Helping Professions, Graf, Eva-Maria, Marlene Sator and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy (eds.), pp. 13–31 | Article
In institutional encounters where a client engages with a practitioner for advice or guidance, there is a phase in which the client may be expected to ‘tell their tale’ before the practitioner offers a response. In this chapter I shall analyse the kind of professional conversation which involves… read more
2012 Pragmatics, linguistic competence, and Conversation Analysis Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 101–112 | Article
Competent speakers have effortless mastery over talk; traditional theories about what happens when that goes wrong tend to locate the problem in the speaker. Conversation Analysis offers a radical alternative, stressing the role of the speaker’s interlocutors and the structures of conversation that… read more