Through an ethnographic, interactive sociolinguistic and cultural approach, this volume introduces a discourse perspective to the analysis of inter-professional communication. It looks at the participants and their contributions to team discourse about children evaluated for mental retardation.

Through an ethnographic, interactive sociolinguistic and cultural approach, this volume introduces a discourse perspective to the analysis of inter-professional communication. It looks at the participants and their contributions to team discourse about children evaluated for mental retardation.