Overview
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.
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Author: Deborah Tannen (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University) ,
Shari Kendall (Research Associate, Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology, Research Associate, Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University) ,
Cynthia Gordon (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Myth and Ritual and American Life, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Myth and Ritual and American Life, Emory University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.596kg
ISBN: 9780195313888
ISBN 10: 0195313887
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 12 April 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This is a must read for linguists, and its multidisciplinary approach and accessibility recommend it to anyone studying or interested in family relationships. Highly recommended. All readers, all levels. --Choice
This is a must read for linguists, and its multidisciplinary approach and accessibility recommend it to anyone studying or interested in family relationships. Highly recommended. All readers, all levels. --Choice<br>
