Introduction: family talk / Shari Kendall. Pt. I. Interactional dynamics: power and solidarity. Power maneuvers and connection maneuvers in family interaction / Deborah Tannen -- Talking the dog: framing pets as interactional resources in family disourse / Deborah Tannen -- "I just feel horribly embarrassed when she does that": constituting a mother's identity / Cynthia Gordon -- Finding the right balance between connection and control: a father's identity construction in conversations with his college-age daughter / Diana Marinova. Pt. II. Gendered identities in dual-income families. Father as breadwinner, mother as worker: gendered positions in feminist and traditional discourses of work and family / Shari Kendall -- Gatekeeping in the family: how family members position one another as decision makers / Alexandra Johnston -- A working father: one man's talk about parenting at work / Cynthia Gordon, Deborah Tannen, Aliza Sacknovitz. Pt. III. Family values and beliefs. "A gore's our guy": linguistically constructing a family political identity / Cynthia Gordon -- Sharing common ground: the role of place reference in parent-child conversation / Philip LeVine -- Family members interacting while watching TV / Alla V. Tovaresn.
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