Publications

Publication details [#53786]

Hester, Stephen and Sally Hester. 2010. Conversational actions and category relations: An analysis of a children’s argument. Discourse Studies 12 (1) : 33–48.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | category membership | culture | dinner conversation | family conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores conversational actions and category relations as occurring in a brother-sister argumentation episode during a family meal. It is demonstrated that the children employ both sequential and categorical cultural resources for argument construction.