Analysis focuses on how utterances opposing another position in an argument are constructed with a simultaneous orientation to (a) the detailed structure of the prior utterance being opposed and (b) the future trajectories of action projected by that utterance, which the current utterance attempts to counter and intercept...
Keywords: argument, family, sequential organization, Projection
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterDinnertime has served as a lucrative site for the study of family discourse (e.g., Blum-Kulka 1997; Ochs and Taylor 1995)...
Keywords: family, framing, footing, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter