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Publication details [#58455]

Yarrington, Jonna M. 2014. Messages from my father-in-law: Indexing membership and proximity in long-distance voicemails. Language & Communication 39 : 24–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | family conversation | message1 | talk-in-interaction | telephone conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This linguistic anthropological analysis shows how nearly a yearlong of long-distance voicemails left by the author's father-in-law on her telephone, discursively build and carry out kinship relations, whilst evoking responses in conceived, or maybe just slacked, talk-in-interaction.