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
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterIn this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory...
Keywords: politeness, Impoliteness, face, relational work, Facework
01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterDrawing 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
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThe present article takes a discursive approach to the topic of impoliteness, in which conceptualizations of impoliteness are construed in the process of real-time interaction...
Keywords: discursive approach, cognitive blending theory, Impoliteness, inappropriate behaviour, relational work
01/2008 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter