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Ambiguous Harmony Family Talk and Culture in America
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By Hervé Varenne, Clifford Hill, Paul Byers
ISBN: 0-89391-930-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-89391-930-6
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 1/1/1992
List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
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Subjects: Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Nature of Families
  • The Culture of Families: What We' Do
  • Making and Unmaking Families in America
  • Family, Culture and Communication
  • Observing Actual Families at Work
  • Making One's Family Life in America
  • Writing One Family's Life in America
  • FAMILY AND COMMUNICATION
  • A HALF HOUR OF FAMILY LIFE OR THE PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST "TEXTS"
  • The People and the Physical Setting
  • An Evening's Activities
  • Ways of Knowing
  • The Production of the Texts
  • The Production of the First Text
  • Transcribing
  • What to Include
  • What We Did
  • THE MAKING OF AN ANALYSIS
  • The Production of Analytic Texts
  • The Place of the Figures Within the Overall Text
  • Epilogue
  • THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONVERSATION: TALK AND TOPIC
  • He Said "..." AND THEN She Said "..."
  • The Identification of Topics
  • The Emergence of Conversational Content
  • The Closet and the Sink
  • The Culture of Analytic Statements
  • AMBIGUITIES IN THE ANALYSIS OF FAMILIAL COMMUNICATION: POWER AND STRUCTURE
  • Interaction: War and Cooperation
  • Power as Action in Society
  • Instances of Family Disagreements
  • Tokens of Aggravation
  • A Formal Cultural Analysis
  • A Formal Theoretical Analysis
  • Behavior and Structure
  • PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN AT TALK
  • Talking with Children
  • Coherence, Coherently
  • "Mom!": The Coherence of Calls for Attention. " ": The Coherence of Silence
  • A Familial Unison
  • The Gift: Grammatical and Interactional Musical Chairs
  • The Choice: Constructing the Child
  • Conversational Accomplishment in Families
  • THE CULTURING OF FAMILIAL LIFE
  • THE CULTURING OF ACTION
  • Social Fact and Cultural Pattern
  • Culture: Pattern and Identification
  • A FAMILY'S SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND ITS "CULTURE"
  • The Organization of a Family's Conversation
  • Parental Gifts: Pencils and Conversational Turns
  • Simple and Elaborated Systematics for Turn-Taking
  • Rules for Analysis
  • Transitions
  • The Activities
  • The Actors
  • Temporal Organization
  • The Social Organization of the Actors
  • The Complex Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking Among the Harveys
  • THE CULTURAL INDENTIFICATION OF A FAMILY'S CULTURE
  • Culture and Identification
  • The Culturing of Family Talk: From History to Symbolic "Normalcy"
  • The Harveys in the United States
  • The Harveys in America: Culturing Culturings
  • "American Child Rearing Patterns" as Constructed
  • The Harveys in America
  • TALK AND REAL TALK: VOICES OF SILENCE AND VOICES OF POWER
  • The Present in the Future
  • Seven Texts
  • A Family at Work: Constructing the Present
  • Establishing the Past: What Happened?
  • (Re-)Constructing the Past: What "Really" Happened (?)
  • The Structure of Scholarly Discourse
  • The Concrete Logic of Intertextuality
  • The Construction of America
  • CONCLUSION: FAMILY, CULTURE, AND PRACTICE
  • From the Local to the Global and Back Again
  • The Expert: Cultural Conditions and Directed Activity
  • Sensitivity and Cultural Condition
  • The Responsibilities of Practice
  • Epilogue, References
  • Appendices
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
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