Download or read book Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction written by Gitte Rasmussen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a study of how teenage boys with learning disabilities evaluate co-participants' 'cognitive' or 'mental' state competences in interaction ("you are sick in the head"). The evaluations emerge out of disputes and disagreements about social experiences and end these disputes by excluding the co-participant from further talk on current topics. The study shows thus how 'mental' state evaluations become insults: In and through the use of 'mental' state evaluations in actions in which the boys triumph over, or 'win' the dispute as they exclude others from participation in on-going.