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 …

Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with,
native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the …

F amily interaction1 has long been the object of study by scholars in a wide range of fields,
but their ranks have been joined by linguists and linguistic anthropologists relatively …

N umerous researchers have suggested that individuals use language, and in particular
narrative language, to construct identities. 1 For ex-ample, Polkinghorne (1988: 150) …

A husband echoes back words that his wife said to him hours before as a way of teasing her.
A parent always uses a particular word when instructing her child not to talk during naptime …

This article uses the concept of family discourse to investigate the systematic structuring of
social relations surrounding parents' gendered—often unequal—family responsibilities and …

From the disciplinary perspective of communication studies, we review theory and research
in family communication, including a brief history of the family communication field; the …

Our basic premise remains the same—communication processes create and reflect family
systems and family identity. Relying on a range of theoretical perspectives, we examine the …

Engaging Theories in Family Communication, Second Edition delves deeply into the key
theories in family communication, focusing on theories originating both within the …

Family stories work to construct family identity. Little research, however, has examined
storytelling in families. This study examined storytelling content and process to assess the …