The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability

Acknowledgements A note on the cover A note on transcription notation Introduction 1. A discursive psychological approach 2. Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category 3. The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be a smart strategy 4. Matters of identity 5. Talk to dogs, infants and... 6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul) 7. Some tentative conclusions Appendices.