Power in Family Discourse ( Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL )

Publication series :Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL

Author: Richard J. Watts  

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year: 1991

E-ISBN: 9783110854787

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110132281

Subject: C913.11 A household or family.

Language: ENG

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Chapter

Chapter One: Introduction

pp.:  1 – 15

1. Language and power

pp.:  15 – 15

3. Latent and emergent networks

pp.:  16 – 18

5. The structure of the book

pp.:  20 – 22

6.1 The data

pp.:  24 – 24

6.2 The participants

pp.:  24 – 31

1. Introductory

pp.:  37 – 37

2. A modular approach to discourse structure

pp.:  37 – 38

2.1 The exchange structure

pp.:  38 – 38

2.2 Action structure

pp.:  38 – 40

2.3 Ideational structure

pp.:  40 – 41

2.4 The participation framework

pp.:  41 – 43

2.5 The information state

pp.:  43 – 46

2.6 Levels or modules?

pp.:  46 – 47

3. Turns and floors

pp.:  47 – 48

4. Turns as on-record “speakings”

pp.:  48 – 51

5. The floor as participation space in the discourse

pp.:  51 – 56

6. Topics

pp.:  56 – 61

Chapter Three: Defining power

pp.:  61 – 67

1. Power as inherent to verbal interaction

pp.:  67 – 67

2. Self-image, status and dominance

pp.:  67 – 68

3. Definitions of power

pp.:  68 – 69

3.1 Power as the capacity to impose one’s will

pp.:  69 – 70

3.2 The consensual view of power

pp.:  70 – 72

3.3 Power as a commodity and power as a discursive force

pp.:  72 – 72

3.4 Power as the capacity to achieve one’s aims

pp.:  72 – 73

4. Defining the exercise of power

pp.:  73 – 75

Chapter Four: Intervention as interruption in social science research

pp.:  75 – 77

2. Interruption as a theoretical term

pp.:  77 – 78

1. Preliminary remarks

pp.:  77 – 77

3. Interruptions as simultaneous speech

pp.:  78 – 79

4. Operationalising interruption as a variable in experimental research

pp.:  79 – 87

5. Conceptualising the term “interruption” within conversation analysis

pp.:  87 – 91

6. Taxonomies of interruption

pp.:  91 – 95

7. Interpretive criteria in evaluating interruptions

pp.:  95 – 102

8. Interruptions as face-threatening behaviour and the exercise of power

pp.:  102 – 106

9. A return to the “prudish view” of interruptions

pp.:  106 – 107

10. Interrupting as a reprehensible social activity: the lay interpretation

pp.:  107 – 114

11. Towards a definition of interruption

pp.:  114 – 119

Chapter Five: Types of verbal intervention in family discourse

pp.:  119 – 123

2. Turn-internal interventions

pp.:  123 – 125

1. Introduction

pp.:  123 – 123

2.1 Off-record minimal listener responses

pp.:  125 – 126

2.2 Turn-internal support and agreement

pp.:  126 – 129

2.3 Looking for space on the floor: the preemptive bid

pp.:  129 – 130

2.4 Responding and contradicting turninternally

pp.:  130 – 135

3. Apparent interventions due to lack of synchronisation

pp.:  135 – 138

4. Intervening without overlap: the “silent interruption”

pp.:  138 – 143

4.2 Cutting in

pp.:  143 – 144

4.1 Petering out

pp.:  143 – 143

5. Projecting turn-completion and intervening at tone unit boundaries

pp.:  144 – 146

6. Blatant interventions

pp.:  146 – 149

6.1 Blatant interventions of a negative kind

pp.:  149 – 150

6.2 Blatant interventions of a positive kind

pp.:  150 – 154

Chapter Six: Latent and emergent networks

pp.:  154 – 159

2. The concept of network in social science research

pp.:  159 – 160

1. Introductory remarks

pp.:  159 – 159

3. Morphological and interactional features of a network

pp.:  160 – 163

3.1 Morphological features

pp.:  163 – 163

3.2 Interactional features

pp.:  163 – 166

4. Latent and emergent networks

pp.:  166 – 168

5. The development of an emergent network

pp.:  168 – 170

6. An individual member’s status within the latent family network

pp.:  170 – 174

6.1 The peripheral member

pp.:  174 – 177

6.2 The member as competitor

pp.:  177 – 180

6.3 The member as authority and resource person

pp.:  180 – 183

Chapter Seven: Status in the emergent network

pp.:  183 – 187

1. Introduction

pp.:  187 – 187

2. Dramatising the self

pp.:  187 – 188

3. The negotiation of status in an emergent network

pp.:  188 – 190

4. A detailed analysis

pp.:  190 – 195

5. Requests and narratives

pp.:  195 – 204

Chapter Eight: Interventions and the negotiation of status and power

pp.:  204 – 209

2. Struggling for power as a resource person: the data

pp.:  209 – 209

1. Introductory remarks

pp.:  209 – 209

3. Determining the emergent networks

pp.:  209 – 218

4. Attempting to open up a second floor

pp.:  218 – 223

5. The centrality index and the measurement of status

pp.:  223 – 226

6. Setting up and consolidating status as a resource person

pp.:  226 – 233

7. Challenging a position of power

pp.:  233 – 239

8. Establishing power as a narrator

pp.:  239 – 248

9. Regaining status as a narrator

pp.:  248 – 254

Chapter Nine: Intervention research in and beyond family discourse

pp.:  254 – 261

2. Status, power and the exercise of power

pp.:  261 – 262

1. Introduction

pp.:  261 – 261

3. Emergent networks in radio phone-in programmes

pp.:  262 – 265

4. Perceiving interventions as interruptive: evidence for face loss

pp.:  265 – 271

5. Gathering further data

pp.:  271 – 277

Notes

pp.:  277 – 281

References

pp.:  281 – 287

Author and subject index

pp.:  287 – 303

LastPages

pp.:  303 – 317

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