Account episodes in family discourse
The Making of Morality in Everyday Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5965656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laur A Sterponi (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-100 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456030050010401 |
| OpenAlex | W2129308992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article investigates account episodes in Italian family dinner conversations and illustrates how sequential patterns and participation are organized in terms of preferences indexical of moral ideology and moral order. Accounts have been mostly examined as speech acts abstracted from embedding sequential environment; this article shows that different design features of the priming move in account episodes retrospectively define different aspects of a situation as problematic and prospectively activate the relevance for distinctive remedial moves. On an ideological level, narrative elicitations as priming moves and accounts as remedial moves index a moral perspective that promotes moral reasoning and thus the negotiation of norms. In addition, such moves realize a practice of morality that tends to be inquisitory vs condemnatory, offering the benefit of the doubt prior to guilt allocation. In conclusion, the discursive mechanics of accountability constitutes a medium for reproduction of, and innovation in, the moral order
Epistemology · Ideology · Indexicality · Linguistics · Morality · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Morality and polyphony in peer dialogues
Classroom norms as resources
‘Well that’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! No excuse’. A discourse analysis of social media users’ othering of non-attenders for cervical screening
Work–Family Practices and Complexity of Their Usage
Other-initiated repair in Italian
“I’m sorry, flower”
The discursive practices of “guilting” in family discourse
“Don't touch”
“But the vanilla is healthy!” Children's expression of arguments to justify their non-compliances in family conversation
Beyond school-related learning
Navigating Onlife Privacy
“Misunderstanding” and (mis)interpretation as strategic tools in intercultural interactions between preschool children
Construction of Rules, Accountability and Moral Identity by High-Functioning Children with Autism
The ‘parent’ category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing
Activity contracts and directives in everyday family politics
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Morality at dinnertime
Noticing Breaches with Nonpolar Interrogatives
Turning the Tables
Deontic Authority in Interaction
‘Teacher Martina wants you to write in cursive’
Because -Prefaced Utterances (BPUs) in Child Interaction
Words also make us
The language of morality
Culinary Linguistics
Expanding the Domain of Morality by Going Beyond Moral Reasoning
The Grammar of Politics
Conversation analysis and power
A sociology of forgiveness in relationships
Multiactivity in adult-child interaction
Co-constructing a child as disorderly
Narratives in the workplace
The moral character of emotion work in adult-child interactions
The face of noncompliance in family interaction
Complaint formulation and negotiation
Needs to Put in More Effort”
The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization
Privilege or tragedy? Educators’ accounts of flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care
Rules of engagement
Shaping a moral body in family dinner talk
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Finishing the family meal. The interactional organisation of satiety
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Assessing the Realization of Intention
Invoking Rules in Everyday Family Interactions
Narrating America
When excuse me means excuse you
Está difícil” [“It’s difficult”]
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I’m not X, I just want Y
Reasons for requests
Preference organization of sequence-initiating actions
Cheaters and Stalkers
Investigating children’s Why-questions
Self-pathologizing, self-condemning, self-liberating
Agency and responsibility in reported speech
Socialization into single-parent-by-choice family life
Accounts at convenience stores
Accountability in Family Discourse
Complaints about technology as a resource for identity-work
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The Ethics and Aesthetics of Care
How Postindustrial Families Talk
Reluctant Bureaucracy
Ordinary Ethics and Reflexivity in Mundane Family Interactions
The Morality of Performance
Managing Freedom. Family Discourse on Children's Urban Autonomy in a Copenhagen Housing Cooperative
Analysing Everyday Explanation
The accountability of conduct
Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Structures of Social Action
On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in Conversation
Studies in ethnomethodology
Stigma
Lectures on Conversation
Constructing Panic
From Grammar to Politics
Introduction
A category system for account phases
Creating Social Identities through Doctrina Narratives
The News Interview
Accounts
Opening up Closings
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Preliminaries to Preliminaries
| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |