Items for "interactional sociolinguistics"

Intertextuality in interaction: Reframing family arguments in public and private

Building on Becker's notion of prior text and Bakhtin's of dialogicality, I explore intertextuality in family discourse by tracing how three couples' conflicts about domestic responsibilities are recycled, reframed, and rekeyed over time, both between each other and in conversation with others: in one case with a friend, and in another with the couple's child...

Keywords: intertextuality, family discourse, framing, conflict talk, interactional sociolinguistics