Power in Family Discourse
In: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] v.63
In: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Ser v.63
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1. Language and power -- 2. Investigating power in a close-knit group -- 3. Latent and emergent networks -- 4. Interventions as interruptions in discourse -- 5. The structure of the book -- 6. The data and the participants -- 6.1 The data -- 6.2 The participants -- Chapter Two: Towards a dynamic model of discourse -- 1. Introductory -- 2. A modular approach to discourse structure -- 2.1 The exchange structure -- 2.2 Action structure -- 2.3 Ideational structure -- 2.4 The participation framework -- 2.5 The information state -- 2.6 Levels or modules? -- 3. Turns and floors -- 4. Turns as on-record "speakings" -- 5. The floor as participation space in the discourse -- 6. Topics -- Chapter Three: Defining power -- 1. Power as inherent to verbal interaction -- 2. Self-image, status and dominance -- 3. Definitions of power -- 3.1 Power as the capacity to impose one's will -- 3.2 The consensual view of power -- 3.3 Power as a commodity and power as a discursive force -- 3.4 Power as the capacity to achieve one's aims -- 4. Defining the exercise of power -- Chapter Four: Intervention as interruption in social science research -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Interruption as a theoretical term -- 3. Interruptions as simultaneous speech -- 4. Operationalising interruption as a variable in experimental research -- 5. Conceptualising the term "interruption" within conversation analysis -- 6. Taxonomies of interruption -- 7. Interpretive criteria in evaluating interruptions -- 8. Interruptions as face-threatening behaviour and the exercise of power -- 9. A return to the "prudish view" of interruptions -- 10. Interrupting as a reprehensible social activity: the lay interpretation -- 11. Towards a definition of interruption -- Chapter Five: Types of verbal intervention in family discourse -- 1. Introduction.