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Alexandra Kent

Researcher at Keele University

Publications -  18
Citations -  502

Alexandra Kent is an academic researcher from Keele University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Conversation analysis & Discursive psychology. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 432 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexandra Kent include Loughborough University.

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Telling people what to do (and, sometimes, why): Contingency, entitlement and explanation in staff requests to adults with intellectual impairments

TL;DR: In this article, a corpus of over 200 everyday requests made by residential home staff to adults with an intellectual impairment, the staff tended to use formats which claimed high entitlement to be obeyed and made little acknowledgement of the contingencies facing their interlocutors.
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Compliance, resistance and incipient compliance when responding to directives

TL;DR: This paper used conversation analysis to identify whether a parent can get a child to do something without actually having done it, and how the child might avoid complying or seem to comply without actually doing so.
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Imperative Directives: Orientations to Accountability

TL;DR: The authors argue that imperative directives that occur after the directed action could have first been relevantly performed explicitly to direct the actions of the recipient and tacitly treat the absence of the action as a failure for which the recipient is accountable.
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Responding to Directives: What can Children do when a Parent Tells them what to do?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined children's options for responding to parental attempts to get them to do something (directives) and found that immediate embodied compliance was the interactionally preferred response option to a directive.