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Maher, John Christopher – Language Sciences, 1990
This study seeks to provide an introduction to some linguistic features of adolescent-therapist conversation, focusing on characteristics of adolescent speech that may appear during therapy. These include problems of expressing feelings, therapy talk as schoolroom talk, powerful forms of questioning, adolescent narrative, and lying. (26…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior, Communication Problems, Discourse Analysis