Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence : Explorations of the conversational interactions of retarded adults.

Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities, not as persons immersed in the stream of social life. This has led not only to a lack of appreciation for the complexity of their lives and concerns, but also to an underestimation and incomplete understanding o...

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Main Author: Sabsay, Sharon
Other Authors: Platt, Martha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; VI:6.
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