The psychological and social dynamics of topic performance in family dinnertime conversation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1787-1806

  Abu Akel, Ahmad ^a  

^a Psycholinguistic and Learning Disabilities Research Institute   (Israel)

Author keywords

Discourse; Family dinnertime conversation; Interaction; Power relations; Psychological dynamics; Topic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036888977     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(01)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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