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Author Watts, Richard J

Title Power in family discourse / by Richard J. Watts
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations
Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 63
Contributions to the sociology of language ; 63.
Contents Contents -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1. Language and power -- 2. Investigating power in a close-knit group -- 3. Latent and emergent networks -- 4. Interventions as interruptions in discourse -- 5. The structure of the book -- 6. The data and the participants -- 6.1 The data -- 6.2 The participants -- Chapter Two: Towards a dynamic model of discourse -- 1. Introductory -- 2. A modular approach to discourse structure -- 2.1 The exchange structure -- 2.2 Action structure -- 2.3 Ideational structure -- 2.4 The participation framework
2.5 The information state2.6 Levels or modules? -- 3. Turns and floors -- 4. Turns as on-record “speakings� -- 5. The floor as participation space in the discourse -- 6. Topics -- Chapter Three: Defining power -- 1. Power as inherent to verbal interaction -- 2. Self-image, status and dominance -- 3. Definitions of power -- 3.1 Power as the capacity to impose one�s will -- 3.2 The consensual view of power -- 3.3 Power as a commodity and power as a discursive force -- 3.4 Power as the capacity to achieve one�s aims -- 4. Defining the exercise of power
Chapter Four: Intervention as interruption in social science research1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Interruption as a theoretical term -- 3. Interruptions as simultaneous speech -- 4. Operationalising interruption as a variable in experimental research -- 5. Conceptualising the term “interruption� within conversation analysis -- 6. Taxonomies of interruption -- 7. Interpretive criteria in evaluating interruptions -- 8. Interruptions as face-threatening behaviour and the exercise of power -- 9. A return to the “prudish view� of interruptions
10. Interrupting as a reprehensible social activity: the lay interpretation11. Towards a definition of interruption -- Chapter Five: Types of verbal intervention in family discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Turn-internal interventions -- 2.1 Off-record minimal listener responses -- 2.2 Turn-internal support and agreement -- 2.3 Looking for space on the floor: the preemptive bid -- 2.4 Responding and contradicting turninternally -- 3. Apparent interventions due to lack of synchronisation -- 4. Intervening without overlap: the “silent interruption�
4.1 Petering out4.2 Cutting in -- 5. Projecting turn-completion and intervening at tone unit boundaries -- 6. Blatant interventions -- 6.1 Blatant interventions of a negative kind -- 6.2 Blatant interventions of a positive kind -- Chapter Six: Latent and emergent networks -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. The concept of network in social science research -- 3. Morphological and interactional features of a network -- 3.1 Morphological features -- 3.2 Interactional features -- 4. Latent and emergent networks -- 5. The development of an emergent network
Analysis Communication in the family
Interpersonal communication
Power (Social sciences)
Sociolinguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index
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In Druckausg.: Watts, Richard J. Power in family discourse
Subject Communication in families.
Interpersonal communication.
Sociolinguistics.
Power (Social sciences)
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Communication in families
Interpersonal communication
Power (Social sciences)
Sociolinguistics
Macht
Interaktion
Konversationsanalyse
Familienbeziehung
Communication interpersonnelle chez l'enfant.
Langue familière.
Sociolinguistique.
Communication dans la famille.
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110854787
3110854783