Ambiguous Harmony: Family Talk and Culture in America: Advances in Discourse Processes

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