Atypical Interaction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Atypical Interaction: An Introduction

   • Ray Wilkinson, John P. Rae, Gitte Rasmussen

   Pages 1-36

3. The Impact of Cognitive Impairments Within Social Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Sequence and Consequence: Transposing Responsive Actions into Provocations in Forensic and Clinical Encounters Involving Youths with Autism

      • Douglas W. Maynard, Jason Turowetz

      Pages 39-63

   3. Making and Taking Opportunities for Co-participation in an Interaction Between a Boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder and His Father

      • John P. Rae, Monica Ramey

      Pages 65-92

   4. Difficulties Facing People with Intellectual Disability in Conversation: Initiation, Co-ordination, and the Problem of Asymmetric Competence

      • Chris Walton, Charles Antaki, W. M. L. Finlay

      Pages 93-127

   5. Does Atypicality Entail Impairment? Tracing the Use of a Cohesive Marker in the Interactions of an Individual with Schizophrenia

      • Lisa Mikesell

      Pages 129-160

   6. Singing as a Resource in Conversations Involving Persons with Dementia

      • Gitte Rasmussen

      Pages 161-193

   7. Dementia in Conversation: Observations from Triadic Memory Clinic Interactions

      • Christopher Elsey

      Pages 195-221

4. The Impact of Language Impairments Within Social Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Shifting Granularity: The Case of Correction and Aphasia

      • Scott Barnes, Francesco Possemato

      Pages 225-255

   3. Repair Organization in Linguistically Asymmetric Interaction: Comparing Child-Parent Conversations and Conversations Involving Speakers with Aphasia

      • Minna Laakso

      Pages 257-287

   4. Increasing Learner Authority in the Classrooms of Children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs

      • Julie Radford

      Pages 289-315

5. The Impact of Fluency Impairments Within Social Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317

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   2. ‘My Own Space in This World’: Stammering, Telephone Calls, and the Progressivity and Permeability of Turns-at-Talk

      • Ray Wilkinson, Sarah Morris

      Pages 319-344

6. The Impact of Speech Impairments and Hearing Impairments Within Social Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 345-345

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   2. Person Reference as a Trouble Source in Dysarthric Talk-in-Interaction

      • Steven Bloch, Charlotta Saldert

      Pages 347-372

   3. How Can the ‘Autonomous Speaker’ Survive in Atypical Interaction? The Case of Anarthria and Aphasia

      • Peter Auer, Angelika Bauer, Ina Hörmeyer

      Pages 373-408

   4. Practices of Negotiating Responsibility for Troubles in Interaction Involving People with Hearing Impairment

      • Katie Ekberg, Louise Hickson, Christopher Lind

      Pages 409-433

   5. Swiss German and Swiss German Sign Language Resources in Repair Initiations: An Examination of Two Types of Classroom

      • Simone Girard-Groeber

      Pages 435-464

Atypical Interaction presents a state-of-the-art overview of research which uses conversation analysis to explore how communicative impairments impact on conversation and other forms of talk and social interaction. Although the majority of people use spoken language unproblematically in social interaction, many individuals have an atypical capacity for communication. The first collection of its kind, this book examines a wide range of conditions where the communication of children or adults is atypical, including autism spectrum disorder, dementia, stammering, hearing impairment, schizophrenia, dysarthria and aphasia. By analyzing recordings of real-life interactions, the collection highlights not only the communication difficulties and challenges faced by atypical communicators and their interlocutors in everyday life, but also the competences and often novel forms of communication displayed. 

With fourteen empirical chapters from leading scholars in the field and an introductory chapter which provides a background to conversation analysis and its application to the study of atypical interactions, the collection will be an invaluable resource for students, practitioners such as speech and language therapists, and researchers with an interest in human communication, communication diversity and disorder.

• communication impairment
• aphasia
• stammering
• hearing impairment
• deafness
• dysarthria
• speech disorder
• augmentative communication
• augmentative and alternative communication
• developmental language disorder
• dementia
• autism
• schizophrenia
• learning difficulties
• Conversation Analysis
• cognitive disorders
• language disorders
• fluency disorders
• sensorimotor disorders
• clinical linguistics

• Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  Ray Wilkinson

• Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK

  John P. Rae

• Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  Gitte Rasmussen

Ray Wilkinson is Professor of Human Communication at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has a clinical background in speech and language therapy. His research interests focus on everyday social interaction, in particular where participants do not have the communicative resources available to neurotypical adult native language speakers. 


John P. Rae is Reader in Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton, UK. He has a BA in Philosophy and Psychology and a PhD in Psychology, both from the University of Leeds. He is interested in how people use talk and visible action in social interaction. 


Gitte Rasmussen is Professor of Social Interaction in the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests concern how people organize social activities and interactions and how they design their talk and visual actions in accordance with their assumptions about each other’s knowledge.

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