Publications

Publication details [#39423]

Tryggvason, Marja-Terttu. 2004. Comparison of Topic Organization in Finnish, Swedish-Finnish, and Swedish Family Discourse. Discourse Processes 37 (3) : 225–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | dinner conversation | family conversation | topic

Language as a subject

Finnish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study explores whether there are cultural differences in topic organization and role-related topic control in Swedish and Finnish dinner conversations, including Finns in Sweden as an intermediate group.