基本説明
This contributed volume will be one of the first to look truly in-depth at the face-to-face interactions within the American family. Working with the same data - audio tape recordings made in four family homes over the course of several years - the contributors focus on extending our knowledge of family discourse and identifying new ways in which family members create and enact their identities.
Full Description
Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique research project in which four dual-income American families recorded everything they said for a week. Family Talk extends our understanding of family discourse and of how family members
construct, negotiate, and enact their identities as individuals and as families. The volume also contributes to the discourse analysis of naturally-occurring interaction and makes significant contributions to theories
of framing in interaction. Family Talk addresses issues central to the academic discipline of discourse analysis as well as to families themselves, including decision-making and conflict-talk, the development of gendered family roles, sociability with and socialization of children, the development of social and political beliefs, and the interconnectedness of professional and family life. It provides illuminating insights into the subtleties of family
conversation, and will be of interest to scholars and students in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, communications, anthropological linguistics, cultural studies, psychology, and other fields concerned with the
language of everyday interaction or family interaction.
Contents
About the Contributors
Transciption Conventions
1: Shari Kendall: Introduction: Family Talk
Part 1: Interactional Dynamics: Power and Solidarity
2: Deborah Tannen: Power Maneuvers and Connection Maneuvers in Family Interaction
3: Deborah Tannen: Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse
4: Cyntha Gordon: "I Feel Just Horribly Embarrassed When She Does That": Constituting a Mother's Identity
5: Diana Marinova: Finding the Right Balance between Connection and Control: A Father's Identity Construction in Conversations with His College-Age Daughter
Part II: Gendered Identities in Dual-Income Families
6: Shari Kendall: Father as Breadwinner, Mother as Worker: Gendered Positions in Feminist and Traditional Discourses of Work and Family
7: Alexandra Johnson: Gatekeeping in the Family: How Family Members Position One Another as Decision Makers
8: Cynthia Gordon, Deborah Tannen, Aliza Sacknovitz: A Working Father: One Man's Talk About Parenting at Work
Part III: Family Values and Beliefs
9: Cynthia Gordon: "Al Gore's Our Guy": Linguistically Constructing a Family Political Identity
10: Philip LeVine: Sharing Common Ground: The Role of Place Reference in Parent-Child Conversation
11: Alla V. Tovares: Family Members Interacting While Watching TV
Index
