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
PART I: INTERACTIONAL DYNAMICS: POWER & SOLIDARITY; PART II: GENDERED IDENTITIES IN DUAL-INCOME FAMILIES; PART III: FAMILY VAUES AND BELIEFS
