Hester2016

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Hester2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hester2016
Author(s) Sally Hester
Title Answering questions instead of telling stories: Everyday breaching in a family meal
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodologically inspired conversation analysis, Everyday breaching, Family mealtimes, Adult/teenager interaction, Formal structures of language
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 102
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Pages 54–66
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2016.06.012
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Abstract

In this article, an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach is used to analyze an instance of a child's everyday breaching as a devise for avoiding engagement in a story telling of the day's news. An analysis is presented which seeks to elucidate (a) some of the methodical practices which are used to produce and constitute the everyday breaching and (b) the child's parents’ analysis of this verbal play as breaching conventional conversational sequential and categorial structures. It is argued that such a fine-grained analysis of seemingly minor breaches can contribute to our understanding of the way that various types of adult/teenager relationships can be constituted via such ‘troublesome’ interactions.

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