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Publication details [#26512]

Tulviste, Tiia, Luule Mizera, Marja-Terttu Tryggvason and Boel De Geer. 2002. Regulatory comments as tools of family socialization. A comparison of Estonian, Swedish and Finnish mealtime interaction. Language in Society 31 (5) : 655–678.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comment | dinner conversation | family conversation

Language as a subject

Estonian | Finnish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This comparison of Swedish, Finnish and Estonian regulatory comments toward adolescent children, issued during family dinner talk, shows both more adult comments on perceived violations of moral rules and more adolescent comments in the Swedish material.