Power in Family Discourse

Richard J. Watts

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110132281
• eBook ISBN: 9783110854787
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of 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
• 2. Turn-internal interventions
• 2.1 Off-record minimal listener responses
• 2.2 Turn-internal support and agreement
• 2.3 Looking for space on the floor: the preemptive bid
• 2.4 Responding and contradicting turninternally
• 3. Apparent interventions due to lack of synchronisation
• 4. Intervening without overlap: the “silent interruption”
• 4.1 Petering out
• 4.2 Cutting in
• 5. Projecting turn-completion and intervening at tone unit boundaries
• 6. Blatant interventions
• 6.1 Blatant interventions of a negative kind
• 6.2 Blatant interventions of a positive kind
• Chapter Six: Latent and emergent networks
• 1. Introductory remarks
• 2. The concept of network in social science research
• 3. Morphological and interactional features of a network
• 3.1 Morphological features
• 3.2 Interactional features
• 4. Latent and emergent networks
• 5. The development of an emergent network
• 6. An individual member’s status within the latent family network
• 6.1 The peripheral member
• 6.2 The member as competitor
• 6.3 The member as authority and resource person
• Chapter Seven: Status in the emergent network
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Dramatising the self
• 3. The negotiation of status in an emergent network
• 4. A detailed analysis
• 5. Requests and narratives
• Chapter Eight: Interventions and the negotiation of status and power
• 1. Introductory remarks
• 2. Struggling for power as a resource person: the data
• 3. Determining the emergent networks
• 4. Attempting to open up a second floor
• 5. The centrality index and the measurement of status
• 6. Setting up and consolidating status as a resource person
• 7. Challenging a position of power
• 8. Establishing power as a narrator
• 9. Regaining status as a narrator
• Chapter Nine: Intervention research in and beyond family discourse
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Status, power and the exercise of power
• 3. Emergent networks in radio phone-in programmes
• 4. Perceiving interventions as interruptive: evidence for face loss
• 5. Gathering further data
• Notes
• References
• Author and subject index