Showing papers by "Elinor Ochs published in 1995"
Abstract: (1995). Co-Construction: An Introduction. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 171-183.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how agoraphobia is realized through the activity of storytelling, and they conclude that it is a communicative disorder that constructs a range of relationships.
Abstract: This study explores how agoraphobia is realized through the activity of storytelling Analysis of one agoraphobic woman's narratives articulates (a) the narrative structuring of a panic episode, (b) the grammatical resources systematically recruited to portray panic as unaccountable and the protagonist as irrational and helpless, and (c) a recurrent communicative dilemma narrated in the setting, which anticipates the onset of panic The narrator presents two conflicting accounts of panic: One foregrounded in her stories and in clinical literature links panic to an immediate activity and location; another backgrounded in her stories and heretofore unrecognized in the literature links panic to a failure to communicate unwillingness to participate in proposed activities that compromise the protagonist's perceived well‐being We conclude that agoraphobia is a communicative disorder that constructs a range of relationships This study offers a methodology for researchers, clinicians, and sufferers of agoraphob
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