Ambiguous Harmony Family Talk in America

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 IndexVarenne, Herve is the author of 'Ambiguous Harmony Family Talk in America' with ISBN 9780893917630 and ISBN 089391763X.