Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families

About the Contributors Transciption Conventions 1. Introduction: Family Talk, Shari Kendall

Part I: Interactional Dynamics: Power and Solidarity 2. Power Maneuvers and Connection Maneuvers in Family Interaction, Deborah Tannen 3. Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse, Deborah Tannen 4. "I Feel Just Horribly Embarrassed When She Does That": Constituting a Mother's Identity, Cyntha Gordon 5. Finding the Right Balance between Connection and Control: A Father's Identity Construction in Conversations with His College-Age Daughter, Diana Marinova

Part II: Gendered Identities in Dual-Income Families 6. Father as Breadwinner, Mother as Worker: Gendered Positions in Feminist and Traditional Discourses of Work and Family, Shari Kendall 7. Gatekeeping in the Family: How Family Members Position One Another as Decision Makers, Alexandra Johnson 8. A Working Father: One Man's Talk About Parenting at Work, Cynthia Gordon, Deborah Tannen, Aliza Sacknovitz

Part III: Family Values and Beliefs 9. "Al Gore's Our Guy": Linguistically Constructing a Family Political Identity, Cynthia Gordon 10. Sharing Common Ground: The Role of Place Reference in Parent-Child Conversation, Philip LeVine 11. Family Members Interacting While Watching TV, Alla V. Tovares Index

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Avainsanat: Solidarity, Dual-Income Families, Gendered Positions, Family Values