Items for "family communication"

Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work

Drawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation...

Keywords: children, closing routines, conversation analysis, family communication, language socialization, relational work