Publications

Publication details [#27825]

Lin, Mei-Chen, Jake Harwood and Jaye L. Bonnesen. 2002. Conversational topics and communication satisfaction in grandparent-grandchild relationships. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 21 (3) : 302–323.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative success | conversation | generation2 | topic

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper identifies four conversational topic clusters in grandparent-grandchild interaction: family relationships, social and work talk, social activity talk and impersonal events. No association was found between conversational topics and communication satisfaction.