Talking Oneself Sober:  The Discourse of Alcoholics Anonymous
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The Audience

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Multimodality of Opening Protocols

141

Prayer

141

Reading

143

The Interactive Sharing Episode

144

Framing Turns: Self Introductions and Address Forms

146

Closing Turns and Turn Transitions

149

Meeting Closing Frame

150

Conclusion

152

Part III: Entering the Dialogic

155

Chapter 8: Fellowship and Symmetry

157

Introduction

157

The Analysis of Spoken Interaction

158

Dialogic and Transmissive Modes of Interaction

159

AA Normative Discourse Disrupted

161

Alignment of Dependency and Gratitude

168

Withdrawing From and Ignoring Controversy

172

Establishing Topical Coherence

175

The Extended Storytelling Turn

181

Conclusion

185

Chapter 9: New and Resisted Voices

187

The Constitutive Aspects of Voice

189

Aligning to the AA Meta-Narrative

192

Acquiring a Communal Voice

193

Voices of the Present and Past Selves

197

Resisted Voices

201

Community or Cult?

207

Conclusion

209