Publications
Publication details [#25921]
Laforest, Marty. 2002. Scenes of family life: complaining in everyday conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (10-11) : 1595–1620. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This analysis of the complaint-response sequence and arguments in Montréal family conversations, discerns preferential realization patterns that can be partly linked to the interlocutors' intimacy, whilst both interactants are shown to use strategies to avoid arguments.