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Publication details [#64450]

Searles, Darcey and Sarah Barriage. 2018. “What does curious even mean do you know?”: Orientations to word meanings in family interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 134 : 57–69.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper employs conversation analytic methods to explore how parents and children orient to word meaning issues. Findings point out that family members show a K− epistemic stance towards word meanings via repair and candidate comprehensions, and achieve other actions by showing a K+ epistemic stance towards word meanings. This paper displays how these orientations to word meanings are not each time didactic in nature, but plainly part of daily family life.