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
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis analysis brings together Goffman's concept of alignment, Bakhtin's notion of dialogicality, and A...
Keywords: discourse analysis, intertextuality, repetition, family discourse, identity construction, mother
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter