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Publication details [#25929]

Abu-Akel, Ahmad. 2002. The psychological and social dynamics of topic performance in family dinnertime conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (12) : 1787–1806.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dinner conversation | family conversation | gender | power | topic

Language as a subject

English, Caucasian American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper which examines topic dynamics in a Caucasian-American family's dinnertime conversation, shows that sustained topics have a psychological and social impact on the participants: thus gender roles and power-relations appear to organize topic development.