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 …

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 study explores the degree of cultural diversity in the dinner-table conversation narrative
events of eight middle-class Jewish-American and eight Israeli families, matched on family …

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 monograph builds upon our cumulative efforts to investigate personal storytelling as a
medium of socialization in two disparate cultural worlds. Drawing upon interdisciplinary …

Family discourse is essentially polite, enacting its politeness in domain-and culturally
specific ways. This study examines parental speech acts of control and metapragmatic …

Building off essays by Gudykunst and Lee (2001) and Turner and West (2003), the purpose
of this essay is to emphasize the need to be more inclusive in family communication …

"... carefully researched and clearly written... Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the
enterprise of studying language use in context and across contexts."—American Ethnologist" …

Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures examines the communication
practices of non-Western cultures. The international cast of contributors assembled here …

Our research considered how the language used in marital conversations reflects the nature
and definition of close relationships. Two linguistic themes with broad relational implications …