Activity contracts and directives in everyday family politics

Discourse and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-154

  Aronsson, Karin ^a   Cekaite, Asta ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

activity contracts; agency; conversation analysis; directive trajectories; directives; downgradings; family discourse; language socialization; moral order; parent child interaction; requests; self regulation; social accounts; upgradings; video ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952458425     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926510392124     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Aronsson, K. (1998) Identity-in-Interaction and Social Choreography, Research on Language and Social Interaction 31: 75-89.
2. Aronsson, K. and Gottzén, L. (2011) Generational Positions at Family Dinner: Food Morality and Social Order, Language in Society 40(4), forthcoming.
3. Aronsson, K. and Rundström, B. (1989) Cats, Dogs, and Sweets in the Clinical Negotiation of Reality: On Politeness and Coherence in Paediatric Discourse, Language in Society 18: 483-504.
4. Aronsson, K. and Thorell, M. (1999) Family Politics in Children's Play Directives, Journal of Pragmatics 31: 25-47.
5. Bauman, Z. (2003) Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds. Cambridge: Polity Press.
6. Beck, U. (1997) Democratization of the Family, Childhood 4: 151-66.
7. Beck, U. and Beck-Gernsheim, E. (2002) Individualization, Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences. London: SAGE.
8. Bergmann, J.R. (1998) Introduction: Morality in Discourse, Research on Language and Social Interaction 31(3-4): 279-94.
9. Blum-Kulka, S. (1990) You Don't Touch Lettuce with Your Fingers: Parental Politeness in Family Discourse, Journal of Pragmatics 14: 256-88.
10. Blum-Kulka, S. (1997) Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
11. Brown, R. and Gilman, A. (1989) Politeness Theory and Shakespeare's Four Major Tragedies, Language in Society 18: 159-212.
12. Brown, P. and Levinson, S.C. (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. New York: Cambridge University Press.
13. Buttny, R. (1993) Social Accountability. London: SAGE.
14. Cekaite, A. (2009) Soliciting Teacher Attention in an L2 Classroom: Embodied Actions and Affective Displays, Applied Linguistics 30: 26-48.
15. Cekaite, A. (2010) Shepherding the Child: Embodied Directive Sequences in Parent-Child Interactions, Text & Talk 30: 1-25.
16. Craven, A. and Potter, J. (2010) 'Directives. Contingency and Entitlement in Action', Discourse Studies 12: 1-24.
17. Curl, T. and Drew, P. (2008) Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting, Research on Language and Social Interaction 41: 129-53.
18. Ervin-Tripp, S. (1976) '"Is Sybil There?" The Structure of some American English Directives', Language in Society 5: 25-67.
19. Ervin-Tripp, S., Guo, J. and Lampert, M. (1990) Politeness and Persuasion in Children's Control Acts, Journal of Pragmatics 14: 307-31.
20. Fasulo, A., Loyd, H. and Padiglione, V. (2007) Children's Socialization into Cleaning Practices: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Discourse & Society 18: 11-33.
21. Forsberg, L. (2007) Homework as Serious Family Business: Power and Subjectivity in Negotiations about School Assignments in Swedish Families, British Journal of Sociology of Education 28: 209-22.
22. Giddens, A. (1995) Transformations and Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Cambridge: Polity Press.
23. Goffman, E. (1967) Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York: Pantheon Books.
24. Goodwin, M.H. (1990) He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
25. Goodwin, M.H. (2006) Participation, Affect, and Trajectory in Family Directive/Response Sequences, Text & Talk 26: 515-44.
26. Grieshaber, S. (1997) Mealtime Rituals: Power and Resistance in the Construction of Mealtime Rules, British Journal of Sociology 48: 649-66.
27. Ishikawa, M. (1991) Iconicity in Discourse: The Case of Repetition, Text 11: 553-80.
28. James, A., Jenks, C. and Prout, A. (1998) Theorizing Childhood. Oxford: Polity Press.
29. Kendon, A. (1990) Spatial Organization in Social Encounters: The F-Formation System, in A. Kendon (ed.) Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters, pp. 209-30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Ochs, E. (1996) Linguistic Resources for Socializing Humanity, in J.J. Gumperz and S.C. Levinson (eds) Rethinking Linguistic Relativity, pp. 407-38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. Ochs, E. and Izquierdo, C. (2009) 'Responsibility in Childhood: Three Developmental Stories', Ethos 37: 391-413.
32. Ochs, E., Pontecorvo, C. and Fasulo, A. (1996) Socializing Taste, Ethnos 61: 7-46.
33. Pomerantz, A. (1984) Agreeing and Disagreeing with Assessments: Some Features of Preferred- Dispreferred Discourse, in J.M. Atkinson and J. Heritage (eds) Structures of Social Action, pp. 57-101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Pontecorvo, C., Fasulo, A. and Sterponi, L. (2001) Mutual Apprentices: The Making of Parenthood and Childhood in Family Dinner Conversations, Human Development 44: 340-61.
35. Prout, A. (2005) The Future of Childhood. London: Routledge.
36. Sacks, H. (1995) Lectures on Conversation, Vol. II. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
37. Scott, M. and Lyman, S.M. (1968) Accounts, American Sociological Review 33: 46-62.
38. Sillars, L.A. (1995) Communication and Family Culture, in M. Fitzpatrick and A.L. Vangelisti (eds) Explaining Family Interaction, pp. 375-99. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
39. Sirota, G.K. (2006) Habits of the Hearth: Children's Bedtime Routines as Relational Work, Text & Talk 26: 493-514.
40. Sterponi, L. (2003) Account Episodes in Family Discourse: The Making of Morality in Everyday Interaction, Discourse Studies 5: 79-100.
41. Sterponi, L. (2009) Accountability in Family Discourse: Socialization into Norms and Standards and Negotiation of Responsibility in Italian Dinner Conversations, Childhood 16: 441-59.
42. Stivers, T. (2001) Negotiating Who Presents the Problem: Next Speaker Selection in Pediatric Encounters, Journal of Communication 51(2): 1-31.
43. Wingard, L. (2006) Mentioning Homework First in Parent-Child Interaction, Text & Talk 26: 573-98.