Publications

Publication details [#53119]

Fitzgerald, Richard and Carly Butler. 2010. Membership-in-action: Operative identities in a family meal. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (9) : 2462–2474.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | context | dinner conversation | family conversation | identity negotiation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on video-recordings of a dinnertime conversation involving a young child, his parents, and his grandparents, this study explores how identities are made operative in and through the moment-by-moment organization of particular action sequences.