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 …

Family interaction 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 anthro pologists relatively recently …

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 …

This issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction explores some of the ways in
which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational …

I dentity construction as an ongoing process has been of considerable interest to linguistic
inquiry in recent years. 1 It has been examined across a wide range of interactional contexts …

Based on examples drawn from tape recordings of two middle-class, dual-career White
couples with children who audiotaped their own interactions for a week, I examined how …

The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected
twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature on the discourse analysis of
spoken interaction in the family context. Specific aspects of family discourse are discussed …

In this study we compared the conversations of mothers and fathers with their children at 1; 3
and 159, with special attention to breakdown-repair sequences. We found that, overall …

Although the manual has been criticized for not recognizing the importance of an
ethnographic approach in cross-cultural research (Schieffelin, 1979), it was extremely …