Making Meanings, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction

by Cynthia Gordon

Book Overview

A husband echoes back words that his wife said to him hours before as a way of teasing her. A parent always uses a particular word when instructing her child not to talk during naptime. A mother and family friend repeat each other's instructions as they supervise a child at a shopping mall. Our everyday conversations necessarily are made up of "old" elements of language-words, phrases, paralinguistic features, syntactic structures, speech acts, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195373839
• ISBN13: 9780195373837
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"