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Article published In: Clinical interviews as verbal interactions
Edited by Michèle Grossen and Anne Salazar-Orvig
[Pragmatics 8:2] 1998
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Therapy interactions

Specific genre or “blown up” version of ordinary conversational practices?

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Published online: 1 June 1998
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