Power in Family Discourse

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