Abstract
The everyday communicative contract we have with each other presumes that, as the philosopher Paul Grice observed, we trust each other to mean what we say and to say what we mean (and to trust that departures from that rule are mindful and meaningful). But when one partner in the talk has an intellectual disability, the other may have doubts whether the rule obtains. This chapter reports the practices that support staff use to display their doubts as to the validity of what the person with intellectual disabilities is saying, what practices they use to re-establish that trust — and the potential for misunderstanding and interactional trouble that such practices can bring.
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Antaki, C., Finlay, W.M.L. (2013). Trust in what others mean: breakdowns in interaction between adults with intellectual disabilities and support staff. In: Candlin, C.N., Crichton, J. (eds) Discourses of Trust. Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-29556-9_2
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